Reshma Saujani is the founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms, and is the author of the forthcoming book Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think). She has spent more than a decade building movements to fight for women and girls’ economic empowerment, working to close the gender gap in the tech sector, and ... Show More
Yesterday
Harry Tannenbaum (Mill) - Setting the Goal at Delight
Harry Tannenbaum is the co-founder and president of Mill, a technology company combining hardware and AI to reduce waste and recover value from everyday materials, starting with food. Mill’s residential food recycler is now in tens of thousands of homes, creating the foundation f ... Show More
49m 49s
Apr 22
Kit Rodgers, Ben Jun, and Paul Kocher (Cryptography Research, Inc.) - Complementary Co-Founders in Cryptography
Stanford alumni Kit Rodgers, Paul Kocher, and Ben Jun co-founded Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI), where they built and deployed some of the world’s most impactful security technologies. CRI was acquired by Rambus in 2011 for $342 million. Kocher is a cryptography and data secur ... Show More
49m 34s
Apr 15
Brendan Foody (Mercor) - Agentic Data and the Future of AI
Brendan Foody co-founded Mercor, a recruiting startup that helps Silicon Valley's top AI labs train their models to do professional-level reasoning by matching skilled workers with enterprise projects. Foody and his co-founders, Surya Midha and Adarsh Hiremath, became the world's ... Show More
47m 19s
Mar 2025
AI for Good: Generative AI’s Impact & Elevating Women in STEM
In this episode of the Data Science Salon Podcast, host Anna Anisin sits down with two powerhouse leaders shaping the future of AI and inclusivity in tech. First, Jennetta George, SVP of AI at AlixPartners & CEO of Artificially Intelligent, shares her expertise on leveraging Gene ... Show More
38m 25s
Mar 2024
Should We Address the Gender Wage Gap?
American women are, on average, paid 84 cents for every dollar men make, according to the Department of Labor. This wage gap has persisted despite near-record rates of women’s participation in the labor market, with wage gaps even larger for women in minority populations, and it’ ... Show More
53m 15s
Feb 2025
Ep 35 - Girls in STEM: A Talk with Eleonora Svanberg Mathematical Physics PhD Student
In today’s episode of Who Rules the World?, host Giulia Tariello European Union Youth Delegate, talks with Eleonora Svanberg, an inspiring woman reshaping the narrative around women and girls in STEM. Eleonora is a half-Swedish, half-Persian writer, speaker, founder, and advocate ... Show More
20m 58s
Apr 2024
Naomi Cahn, et al., "Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce--why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back.
In an era of supposed great equality, women are still falling behind in ... Show More
1h 7m
Sep 2023
EP285 Why boys are struggling (and what educators can do about it)
<p>I recently read a powerful book called, <a href= "https://amzn.to/45OPy3U">"Of Boys and Men: Why They're Struggling, Why We Should Care, and What We Can Do About It" by Richard Reeves</a>. It's not the first piece of media I've consumed about the crises men are facing in the U ... Show More
55m 50s