ePahayagan Blog
Filipina Women in Tech: Gamechanger Tracey Young Disrupts Construction Industry with PlanGrid
"In 2011, Tracey Young's company PlanGrid was accepted into the prestigious start-up incubator Y Combinator, and with Young as CEO, it has since been used on 400,000 projects in 195 countries. Its benefits—logistical and economic—are so apparent that one project manager recently told Young that learning about it felt like being taught to use fire for the first time. Top venture firm Sequoia Capital sees the same magic; they've invested $30 million. "I joke that I used to work for one superintendent," Young says. "Now I work for hundreds of thousands." News story from Elle.com
Filipina Women in Tech: VizKidz Educates Kids in Data Visualization
Vizkidz Publishing LLC is co-founded by Filipina-American Designer Abigail Ricarte and Norwegian-American Data Journalist Liv Buli. Together, the pair has created a series of children’s books that illustrate the basic concepts of data visualization. They recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowd-source funding for the initial print, publishing, and distribution of the first book in the series: “Penelope Pie Throws A Pizza Party.”
Learn more about Vizkidz: http://www.vizkidz.rocks/
Be Part of the Future of Filipino Americans in Tech, Oct. 9
FASTERCON is the inaugural annual conference hosted at UC Berkeley by FASTER (Filipino Americans in Silicon Valley Tech) which aims to create, connect, and cultivate a valuable movement of Filipino Americans in the technology industry.
This year's conference is focused on highlighting and strengthening the network of Filipino American technology professionals in the Bay Area. Register for the conference or become a mentor!
Delle Sering Fojas (Global FWN100™ '13): From party girl to tech company CEO
"While Delle Sering did not stay long at her first job, it was there where, she confessed, she learned a lot about working in New York, negotiating with the toughest customers, being obstinately competitive, until she became the hard-nosed marketing representative in technology and chief executive officer at Seven Seven Corporate Group. The free-spirited good-time girl is now a CEO!"
Way to go, Mark! -Zuckerberg's Advice to Young Women: Be the Nerd, Don't Date the Nerd
New dad Mark Zuckerberg had a clever response to a comment on a recent Facebook post he made about building an artificial intelligence system for his home. On the post, a grandmother commented that girls should "Date the nerd in high school" because he might turn out to be the next Mark Zuckerberg. In response, Zuckerberg replied, "Even better would be to encourage them to *be* the nerd in their school so they can be the next successful inventor."
Though 7/10 employees at Facebook are men, Facebook has recently made mindful, intensified efforts to both garner interest, and recruit women in the technological field.