Pooja Sankar started working from home 5 days after giving birth to her son Arjun. By Ellen Lee (Contributing Writer, San Francisco Chronicle) Three days after giving birth to her son, Pooja Sankar was already fielding phone calls from work. Sankar, founder and CEO of Palo Alto’s Piazza, an online gathering place for college students [...]
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Misrepresented, Misunderstood, Miraculous Women Entrepreneurs
December 11, 2011 – 11:26 am
By Sarah Granger (Contributor, San Francisco Chronicle) It’s no secret that San Francisco and Silicon Valley’s tech demographics skew heavily on the side of men. Rather than continue quietly observing this cultural inequity, over the past few years, more voices have brought attention to the issue. Through increased publicity, thanks to speeches by leaders like [...]
Budding Techies Spend Their Summer at App Camp
July 12, 2011 – 9:58 pm
By Ellen Lee (Contributing Writer, San Francisco Chronicle) Samantha Johnson won’t have a sunburn or mosquito bites to show for her time at camp this summer. But the 11-year-old will take home something else – an iPhone app called “Cupcakes vs. Bunnies” that she developed herself. Samantha spent last week on the Stanford campus sitting [...]
