SheKnows Media: In Search of Elusive, “Fabulously Bright, Driven Women”

We saw inamp160Bloomberg Businessamp160that youamp8217re having a hard time finding capable smart women to work for your venture capital firm Perhaps this explains why there is only one woman featured on your companyamp8217samp160leadership page And in fact only 4 of senior venture capitalists are womenamp160Youamp160said if you could find amp8220fabulously bright driven women who are really interested in technology very hungry to succeed and can meet our performance standardsamp8221 your company would amp8220hire them all day and nightamp8221 If only there was a way to find these women in youramp160425787 LinkedIn followersamp160amp8230amp160Weamp8217re here to help The good news is these women exist building their own companies running major corporations developing new technologies and they would make excellent additions to the communityYour interview prompted Nancy Lublin CEO of DoSomethingorg and total female powerhouse toamp160take to Facebook She offered up five accomplished women who would make excellent candidates for any VC firm She asked her network to add other notables at will referring to her list as amp8220a little binder full of womenamp8221 In the cheerspreading manner of the holidays the idea caught on like wildfire with an additional 200 women mentioned on Facebook at the time of publishingTake a look at a few that caught our eye There are hundreds moreAyah Bdeir Founder and CEO littleBitsBeth Comstock CMO GE and oversaw the founding of HuluCori Lathan CEO and board member at AnthroTronixDava Newman Deputy Administrator NASA and Professor Aeronautics MITGina Bianchini Founder and CEO MightybellHeidi Messer Former COO President of LinkShareJennifer Hyman CoFounder and CEO Rent the RunwayJoan Sullivan Deputy Mayor of Education City of Los AngelesJulie Rice andamp160Elizabeth Cutler CoFounders SoulCycleKathryn Finney Founder and Managing Director digitalundividedLauren Zalaznick Former EVP NBC Universal and Member Board of Directors ShazamPadmasree Warrior Board Member Box ampamp Former CTO and Strategy Officer CiscoSheila Lirio Marcelo Founder Chairwoman ampamp CEO CarecomThese women are the gamechangers behind companies like Hulu Shazam SoulCycle and even NASA Not badWe arenamp8217t surprised We know that women are the lead adopters of technologyamp160thus making them wellversed in the digital space We also know that women control 85 of purchasing decisionsamp160and represent a 14 trillion market But with only 7 of venture capital funding going to womenowned businesses5amp160we are not really represented on either side of the table amp160Something seems off rightSince you have committed to hiring female leaders we will be tweeting an ongoing list of women who could fit the bill using the hashtagamp160shecouldbeaVCWomen feel free to join inThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillageMyersBizNet management or associated bloggersamp160

Click to Make Your 2025 Contribution to Support the MediaVillage Education Foundation

SheKnows Media: In Search of Elusive, “Fabulously Bright, Driven Women”

Author

Publish date

Channel

Archived in

Davida E. Arnold

Empowering Women in Media: Insights from Industry Leaders (Video) - By E.B. Moss

More Videos:

Click to Make Your 2025 Contribution to Support the MediaVillage Education Foundation

SheKnows Media: In Search of Elusive, “Fabulously Bright, Driven Women”

Enjoying This Commentary? There's More to Love

Davida E. Arnold

Empowering Women in Media: Insights from Industry Leaders (Video) - By E.B. Moss

The payment was successful

Cookies