Meet the Most Powerful Women in Technology

[RogerThatTangoDown]

Here are some amazing women who can be kept in mind when celebrating Woman's day and the great qualities women possess not just personally but also in business that make them great successes, enjoying it at the pinnale of tough industries like the tech sector. Seeing these women succeed in a highly male-dominated industry, really inspires me. Hope you are impressed too...

Sheryl Sandberg

Obviously, there is Sheryl Sandberg who at the age of 44 is the COO of Facebook. She's and the first woman member of Facebook’s board of directors and is a published author. In 2013, she released her book Lean In, which is about helping women to materialize their professional goals by leaning into their dreams and ambitions. It was on the top of the bestseller lists since it came out.

Virginia Rometty

In 1981 she started as a systems engineer at IBM, from there Rometty showed her business acumen, insights and leadership capacity, and then established herself as the first female to be the head of the company. IBM faced a 5% decline in revenue in 2013, so she earned respect from media and colleagues when she announced that she’d not be taking her annual bonus. She puts her money where her mouth is.

Meg Whitman

She is the CEO/president of the world’s second-largest tech company, Hewlett-Packard (HP). Graduating from Princeton University and Harvard Business School, Meg Whitman is a great success who is humble. For the past three years Whitman has earned only a $1 salary. Before HP, she served as CEO of eBay for ten years and was a director of Zipcar & P&G. She also has been involved in politics when in In 2010, she ran for governor of California. She ultimately conceded the election to her opponent, she set the record of spending the most of her own money than any other self-funded political candidate.

Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer had been 13 years at Google, when she became the CEO of Yahoo! in July 2012. Her nick-name in Silicon Valley was ‘spender-in-chief’, since she spent so much, she led Yahoo! to acquire Tumblr in a 1.1 billion dollar acquisition in 2013. She’s improving site’s media presence, hiring high profile journalist Katie Couric, and announcing plans to create new original programming. Only in her late thirties, she has had an interesting career with a lot challenges and exciting opportunities.

Susan Wojcicki

Susan Wojcicki is the CEO of the world’s largest video platform: YouTube. She has moved up the rankings cosiderably as she was previously serving as consigliore for Google’s ads and commerce (some 90% of revenue), before she became CEO. She obviously knows how to secure profit from every meme. Wojcicki is one to watch in the near future.

[Watermelonoma]

I guess i shouldn't be surprised with the number of haters on this myTake lol. I thought it was a good take, and a breath of fresh air away from the overly feminist route of celebrating womans day. These are examples of women who WORKED hard to get to where they are. They didn't make the companies per se, but to be at those positions, you need to bust your ass... a concept which is foreign to a lot of people here tbh.

I actually learned something here. For one, i wasn't aware the CEO of YouTube was a woman. Always assumed it was a guy. Also didn't know about the Facebook COO. Now Marissa Mayer is someone who i actually am familiar with, largely because she hired one of my current role models, a guy called Nick D'alonsio. I talk about him in one of my past takes, but this is a kid who at 17 years old, created an app called Summly which would summarize articles you read online to under 400 words (or characters, i can't quite remember). Anyways, Marissa took note of this kid, and she bought the app for $30 million dollars, and gave Nick a job at yahoo. She comes across as a risk taker, which is a rare trait in women, and maybe even somewhat of a maverick. I respect that

All in all, I liked this take because it showed some actually good examples of women that other women (and men frankly) can use as role models. These are the kinds of takes I want to read on here... not the typical bullshit that people spew about every day, so thank you, and well done.

[nita00]

They are CEOs , not programmers or geeks. Ok, one of them was "IBM engineer" for some time. But they are rather business related.

[Amplify]

I recently found out that HP computers are mostly crapbuckets. And I've always known that their printers are secretly cages with demons inside of them sent out to make humans suffer. It's a shame that she didn't work her way up in Intel or AMD or at least Dell. Now she is probably gonna get blamed for the pain and suffering HP was causing long before she got there.

[scottb80]

The problem is, women are still lagging when it comes to being entrepreneurs and innovators. All these women while successful, all work at companies founded by men, pushing products and ideas that were invented by men. For all the Sheryl Sandbergs out there, there is still a Mark Zuckerberg who came up with the idea and made her job possible.

If women really want to make a statement. They have to start being the innovators and inventors. They have to start being the ones who tinker in garages, and collaborate in dorm rooms to come up with the next big idea. They have to be the ones starting up companies and creating jobs where none existed.

[RationalMale]

What I have to ask is... how many women in technology actually innovated and made new things?

Sure, it's cool they got jobs in well established firms.

How many women actually came up with things that took off? I'm going to wager that the people who actually brought Facebook, or YouTube, or ibm into existence were men, who built it from the ground up.

[KBob93]

Didn't know a woman was that high up in Facebook. Kudos.

[akadatank44]

I actually know Marissa Mayer and some of her family because we grew up in the same hometown. She is very nice!

[fiego]

Susan's sister is Anne Wojcicki who started 23andme. com which allows you to trace your DNA. I haven't tried it yet but would like to sometime.

[notverycreativeguy]

Cool. Now the most powerful men in technology please.
But I guess they would not fit into a take.

[guitar94]

Bahaha truth hurts right?

[1GuyOpinion]

Holy shit Marissa Mayer... Is she really in her 30s?

She look like she in early 20s. *_*

[Drast]

Intelligence is not a male dominated trait, why do you feel the need to point out successful women?

[abundantlyrich]

Hopefully they will be staying in the company for a long time.

[Anonymous]

none of them achieved something scientific or technological. list=fail.

[smexiliciousss]

Marissa Mayer is beautiful

[BertMacklinFBI]

at least there's a young hot one in the bunch.

[Song4TheBroken]

Women's day? Is that an actual thing? Hahahaha wtf

[algz23]

Brain is free to be used by the owner.

[LauraMarx]

I hate all of them

[LauraMarx]

god remember this, this was disgusting

[Anonymous]

Isn't the CEO of Xerox corp. a woman too?

[Anonymous]

And why should I care again?

[Krushhbrownies]

This is cool