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Reshma Saujani

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“We did a partnership with Doja Cat, you know, where we basically coded her nails. Literally in one day, Stephen, 100,000 girls signed onto the website to basically learn how to code nails. And now 10 years later, you know, you turn on Netflix and you watch any teen drama, which I love to watch. The protagonist is always a cool girl coder. And so we've made coding cool. We've built the pipeline of talent.”
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“In terms of love and empathy and sisterhood. And so I would say, you know, during the graduation, I have one ask from you. I want you to go back to your community. I want to go back to your school and I want you to start a club. And I want you to find one girl that's going to join. And so they like met me on my challenge. And so then one girl and then 100 girls. And then we ended up with 10,000 girls who code clubs across the country in every single county, town and parish. And we exploded in India and in the UK and same model, right? Where you had basically girls going back to their communities, volunteers, librarians, teachers, people saying, I want to start this move. I want to build help you build this move. I want to start this club. And so we just had this massive explosion. And then culturally, we started slowly, slowly, slowly changing the narrative and making coding cool. You know, last year,”
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“Explode in terms of what they wanted to do, the sisterhood that they built in every classroom was basically, you know, white, Asian, black, trans, non-binary. And so many girls had never met, you know, girls who were white had never met someone who was black before, never been friends with somebody who was trans. So like you were basically creating quite frankly what the world should look like.”
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“And that the project while they were there was to build something about a change that they wanted to make. Again, connecting it to what girls wanted to do, then I can then inspire a generation of young women to want to be coders and technologists. And so we started kind of one tech company at a time and we would build these summer camps. And years, you know, basically in a handful of years, we're running kind of the largest summer camp in America. And then we started expanding that. And then, you know, part of, you know, as an organizer, I wasn't really a nonprofit. I was building a movement. And what I would say to my students, I would say, okay. The experience for them was transformative. I mean, it was just, you saw these girls just.”
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“And we just culturally had done such a good job of pushing girls and people of color out of technology. You know, we had Barbie dolls that said, I hate math, let's go shopping instead. Every image that you saw on television from weird science to Revenge of the Nerds was just, again, these like really nerdy white dudes. And so it didn't feel very inclusive. And so at Girls Who Code, what I wanted to do is meet girls where they were at. And two change the culture. And so what I mean by meet girls where they were at, I started thinking, well, if girls went to technology companies like a Facebook or a Spotify, and they walked in and they saw what was happening, they actually learned to code embedded in a classroom inside a tech company.”
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“10,000 girls are good. So it started like basically the model was when I started girls of code 0.4% of girls were interested in coding and girls were interested in making the world a better place. But when they thought about a computer scientist, they thought about some guy sitting in the basement somewhere drinking a red bowl and they're like, yeah, no thank you.”
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“That we've actually gone through our coding programs, and then we've reached about a half a billion through our work, our books, our videos, our campaigns. We've reached a lot of kids.”
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“Totally. I think the biggest skill that I learned in campaigning is how do you tell a story? How do you inspire people? How do you connect to people? And, you know, by my second campaign, I don't have the written out speech in my pocket. I don't have the suit on. I got my hoops and my red lipstick. And I am communicating and I'm there and I'm present. And I have nothing to prove. And, you know, I don't, I fight back when people do the character assassination. I'm not easily convinced when people say that they're going to support me, that they're going to really support me. Like I can see people now. And so I lose that race, but you're right. I learn so much and I become more comfortable in my skin and who I am.”
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“Well, the way it played out, I would recommend it because it all ended up working out good for girls who code because I lost the public advocate's race was about I'm going to make sure that every kid in New York City learns how to code. I lose that race. This time I realize, wow, like politics is just, it's not, I like to say it's not a performance sport. It's not a meritocracy. It's not like the person with the best ideas wins. And now I've run, I've taught 20 girls to code. And so now I'm like, all right, if you're not going to elect me, I'm still going to teach every girl to code. I'm going to teach every girl in America to code. And then the world. And then I really have a chip on my shoulder because now I didn't get picked for the first ref. I didn't get picked for the second draft either.”
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“Girls. We're the people of color. And I kept thinking about those classrooms. And so then I spent the next year basically on my lunch breaks and in my evenings just learning everything about why there weren't girls and women in coding and started kind of writing a business plan that became girls who code and started plotting my next run. So I basically ended up running for public advocate of New York City, which is kind of like the second position to mayor and then launching girls who code at the same time.”
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“So for me next, I said, well, I'm not going back to that private sector job that I hated. I'm going to have to deal with being broke. And what are all, and I love meeting people on the campaign trail. I loved talking to them. I loved hearing about their problems. And I'm still that 13-year-old girl who wants to make a difference in the world, still the Dharma warrior. And I was like, okay, well, what of all the things I saw on the campaign trail? What moved me? And, you know, when I ran for office, it was in 2010. So it was when tech was starting to boom. Twitter was just coming up, Facebook, Instagram. And I would go into computer science classrooms and robotics labs and I would just see lines and lines and lines of boys trying to be the next Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. And because I wasn't a coder or computer scientist, I was like, where are the codes?”
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“If I hired that person, if I didn't say that, then maybe I would have won. So my first campaign loss was easier than my second one.”
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“It took me a month But I also have a hack on failure that has worked for me, which is I let myself ruminate about it, then talk to my boyfriend, now my husband a million, why did that happen? What mistake did I make? You know, my father sent me a nice long email about the 10 things I did wrong. Brutal. Listen, Indian parents, you know what I mean? And then I was done. And I said, and I was ready to move on and started thinking about what I was going to build next, the campaign maybe that I would run for next. So the first, I think for me, the first, that was my first really big failure. And I think sometimes the first one is easier because I kind of could tell myself, well, I did make some mistakes. If I did that differently.”
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“Drinking a lot of margaritas. No, but seriously, I think. I've read a lot about competitive athletes. For a lot of them, what makes them great is they had something that happened in their career early on. didn't get picked in the first draft. They miss that one shot. And it puts kind of a chip on their shoulder. Like, I'm going to show you. And that's what this race did for me. It was like I didn't get picked in the first draft. But I knew what I was, what my potential was. I was going to show you. And I wasn't going to let failure break me.”
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“To cry so bad. I was devastated. And, you know, I had no contingency plan. And I had literally picked a fight with some very powerful people. And I remember there's this young woman who every morning was like with me and, you know, she was like, you know, basically my body person, as they call it, she's just looking at me, Rebecca. And I was like, I'm not going to cry because I know she's going to remember this moment for the rest of her life. And I need to show strength. And so I stood up there in my victory party. Everybody's crying. The entire place is crying. I'm standing there. And I'm just like, you know, gotta do it again. Don't you worry? And then I came back to my hotel room and then I cried and cried for like a month.”
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“Don't take them seriously, and then people don't take them seriously. I lose like spectacularly. And I was shocked that I lost. I had not even written my concession speech. We had booked this hotel room in New York City that we could not afford. And my campaign organizers had posted the entire room with all these notes. I can't wait to be in Washington. This is the bill we're going to pass. This is the change we're going to make. I had literally, because what happens when you're running for office, you go to these New York City subway stops and you hand out your pampa and everyone was like, I voted for you. I voted for you. I voted for you. So I was like, I got this. It's a bag, you know, like it's going to be, you know, an upset. And then I'm sitting there. My father's, you know, kind of sitting with me and we're watching the election returns come in. And like, you know, five minutes in, it's done. My dad's like, I'm going to bed. I'm like, thanks, dad.”
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“But I remember the last week the race of the New York Times finally acknowledged my race and they sent a reporter. And she followed me around the whole day and we're knocking on doors and immigrant communities. We're walking into like, you know, communities in Queens where you had young Bangladeshi girls having my poster up being like, I want to be like her one day and how revolutionary it was, especially for the community, to see someone who looks like them running for office. And I remember she then decides to write a story about my shoes. Not a word about my campaign, but about my shoes. And it was, you know, again, such an example of what we do to young women, young people of color when they run. You know, we make it a caricature.”
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“And I had now, I was this brown girl, I had raised more money than any Democratic challenge. I was actually the only Democrat challenger in many ways in the history. Now it's very common. You know, Alexandria Ocasio, my friend, right? It's very common. But back then it was like never done. So I was like this upstart that was making waves. And in many ways, I think helped open the path up for people like.”
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“And also, I think the second part of my story was very inspirational being the daughter of immigrants, you know, coming from working class background. So they really had to shift my narrative. And she did a really good job because I came from Wall Street. You know, I wasn't running Wall Street. I was, you know, a lawyer, a junior lawyer at Wall Street. But so that narrative shift happened. And because I had never known how to control my own narrative, I lost that battle. And I often found myself on the defensive. And people are mean. And I would make the mistake of reading the comment section. And it was really, really tough. Really tough. And I never got the person that I was. You remember this one time that we finally got the New York Times to do a story on our”
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“Yeah. It was devastating because I was, well, you know, first, a lot of, you know, incredible feminists like Geraldine Ferraro were like trying to get me as glorious stein and was like, why are you running? Like these are women who I admired because again, I think when you, and I thought I would go to these, you know, campaign events and people would say, well, young people need to run. Young women, you should run for office one day. And I naively thought, well, look, I'm running. We're not doing what you've been talking about with the movement needs. But really what they meant is like, Rumba, don't run against me and don't run against one of us.”
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“Who couldn't even pronounce my name, who had asked me where my religion was, right? It was wild. And I had never gone on television before. My first TV interview was Chris Matthews, which was the largest news time show. He was so mean to me. I didn't even know where to look on the screen. It was a mess. I didn't know how to dress. I had never given a speech in front of people before. I remember I would like literally practice my speech and memorize it and paste my little apartment. And so everything was just scary. But amazing. It was the best, best still, probably the best 10 months of my life.”
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“Oh my god, still Yeah, she hasn't really gotten over it still. But in some ways, though, it's good because it wasn't an easy thing to do, meaning it wasn't, it'd be much easier if the seat was open or if the other person was like, this is great. You know, we have competition in the race, but I really, it was such a beautiful experience because I was so damn naive. Like, I really thought that I could shake every hand, meet every voter, and I would win. But it was the best experience of my life because it's how I learned how to be an entrepreneur. Because, you know, when you run a campaign, it's like starting a business and shutting it down in the span of 10 months. You got to hire people. You know, you got to raise money. You got to figure out what your message is, what your brand is. It's exactly what taught me that experience is what taught me to build girls who code in Marshall Plan for moms and what gave me probably the confidence to do it. You have to walk into rooms. I mean, I had to walk into rooms of like, you know, 65 years.”
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“Yeah, crazy thing to do. I was 33. I was the first South Asian American American woman to run for Congress in the United States. I had no idea what I was doing. Like I said, like I didn't have, I couldn't be like, hey, Dad, you know, will you build me a campaign strategy? And I had to kind of figure it out on my own. Also, like people, I mean, I ran against this very powerful, very vindictive woman who Know was not someone who was going to take lightly to this young brown girl running against her for her seat.”
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“And so I was lost. And I remember I had one of my best friends, Dipa, happen to call me at this moment. And she just said, just quit. And there was nothing like profound. But there was something about, I think, hearing those words at the right time in my life that was like, yeah, I can just quit. Like I can, and I did. And the second call I made was to my father. And I remember him saying bitter. Yes, quit. And then I was like, whoa. Because I had built him up as the reason that I was not chasing my dreams. And by getting that permission, I realized, oh, I was the one. It was my fear, you know, my fear of like taking a risk that was actually standing in the way of me actually doing what I was meant to do. So then I didn't have any more excuses. And I ran for Congress.”
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“This life that I felt very stuck by because I wasn't rich. I didn't have all this money in the bank account. And I did have also, I think, the expectations of my immigrant parents because I was doing what the good Indian girl was supposed to be doing. I was a lawyer and a law firm. And nobody I knew had the path that I wanted to take. So I didn't even know how to get there. And I didn't know who to ask. I didn't know who was going to give me the playbook.”
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“Like anxiety, depression, despair. And then I make a change. And I really did find myself, you know, at age 33, like every night barely being able to get out of bed and having a large glass of wine and just crying. Because I was like, is this my life? They say in Hinduism, like you have a Dharma, like what you're put on this earth to do. And I feel so blessed that from the time I was a little girl, I knew what my dharma was. Just imagining this life of being a changemaker, of making a difference in the world. And here I was 2008. The world is falling apart and I'm sitting in a freaking hedge fund as a lawyer. Like, what? I'm so far away from that little girl who's staring at the clouds. And I didn't know how to get out.”
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“Oh, I was miserable. I mean, because that wasn't the plan. You know, the plan when I graduated law school was, you know, to run for office. And, you know, I would just go take this law firm job. And after a couple years, I would quit and go do the thing. But then I got stuck because now I was helping my parents with, you know, some of their finances. I was living this very, I had this apartment that I had to pay rent for. And I was then living a life that, you know, saddled me through that desk. And I was getting older And then 10 years passed by. And I don't know about you, but for me, I rise like a phoenix from the ashes. And what I mean by that, like, is I have to be at my bottom.”
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“Totally forced man. Yeah, because I would have liked when I graduated to go be a civil rights lawyer, but instead I get an offer from a fancy law firm where I'm A couple thousand bucks a month. And I didn't do the math on the interest payments or how long it would actually take for me to pay off this debt because that was just principle and not interest. And now, you know, basically 23 years later, I'm still paying it off. But I think that's why I think so many people who actually want to make a difference because they have student loan debt aren't able to and then wait and wait and wait. And you see all these good ideas kind of die on the vine because now you're stuck working for the man and you literally feel stuck and you don't know how to get out.”
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“But I think when I was growing up, it did matter. But I will say that being in those kinds of institutions, I often would just sit in my chair and watch, watched at how people with power navigate. And I think that that then taught me a lot. I would say it's on the boards that I sit on today. You know, a lot of it is just watching how people operate and how people navigate. You know, going to Yale Law School, I say this. I never could raise my hand because all these kids had gone to these fancy private schools and I don't know what they were talking about. And I felt like I didn't belong. And so that's the bad part of it, right? Because you feel like you kind of snuck in and you're not able to fully step into your power and articulate and be who you want to be. But I think it was a really powerful experience for me in grit because again, I kept applying. I kept applying. I kept applying. I kept applying. And I finally transferred to Yale Law School and got in and got that degree. Now, do I think I would still be the same person if I didn't have a degree from Yale?”
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“I mean, I think it's a credential. I don't know how much it matters now. Like now, when I hire people, I want to know about your grit, your hustle, like how you work, your work ethic, less about work. I don't even think I know where half the people who work for me went to school, nor do I pay attention to it.”
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“Yeah. Tried again three times. Again, grew up in a working class community. Nobody went to Yale, Harvard. I drove that there's some like Indian auntie at the temple that talked about some kid, but I never met them. Everybody went to community schools, state school. I didn't even. Know how I would apply. I don't even think I ever applied to university, but I knew from a young age that I wanted to do something. And I knew that I lived in a country where credentials mattered, especially as a woman of color. And that if you had that Yale or Harvard degree, people were going to believe in you or at least open some doors. And that was always from the time I was 13 years old going to Yale law school was always the thing I was chasing.”
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“Because you can tell this story and you can fundamentally changed me. I don't think I would have built the movements that I'm building right now. I don't have that. I can feel pain. I know what it's like to be. Not accepted to be ostracized, to be hated.”
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“They're painful. You know, right now we're going through in New York City this, you know, all of this Asian hate and all these hate crimes that are happening against Asian Americans in New York City and across the country. And as they've been happening, I think I've been thinking about this stuff because I was like one day I was like, oh, I can count the amount of times, literally. And that's sad that you can count the amount of times that something has happened to you, hateful or violent. But I think part of surviving is about sometimes blocking Althea's moments or rewriting what they meant to you in the future. In the past, it was painful.”
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“Everything, everything. I think 100% of who I am from that moment. Again, I think a year later I led my first march. The older I got, but that's when I became a warrior. You know, that's when I became a fighter. And so I'm so grateful to have had That trauma Because it's made me who I am. But I will be honest, I don't think I have fully processed it. I don't remember, I don't like relive that moment until other people who were there like, do you remember that app? Like even my sister reminded me that I woke up the next day being like, do you know that you said that you're going to go to graduation? Like, I don't remember that. So I still do think that even though these experiences are transformative, They are”
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“I was mad that my parents made me Rishba instead of Rachel. You know, I was mad that I sometimes smelled like Indian food. You know, I was mad that I couldn't go to church and know what they were talking about, that we believed, you know, in Krishna instead of Jesus. And at that moment, everything shifted. And I realized that I'm not white. I'm never going to be accepted. And so I better be proud of who I am. And I better fight for who I am and for people like me.”
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“Just crank. And I am like, I have like a concussion. And the next day is my eighth grade graduation. My sister reminded me, she said, You know, you woke up the next morning and you look at mom and dad and you say, I'm going to graduation. And I had this beautiful blue lace dress. And my sister called her friend over who did my makeup. And again, we go to graduation. My father, I think, finds the parents. The parents just say laugh and say, kids are kids. Again, my mother cries, Why did you bring me this country? That was a shift. Myself. Because I think up until that point, I was trying to be white.”
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“Remember right at the end of the day, the bell rings. My best friend's food was like, just get on the bus, just get on the bus. And I'm like, no, I don't know what it was. Maybe it was because the last day of school. But I show up to that schoolyard. And the entire schoolyard is just full of kids. And everyone's screaming and there's spray paint and confetti. And she just comes up to me and bang. And then her friend has, you know, a baseball bat. And I basically get beaten up. With a tennis racket and a baseball cap. And I came to my friend Fu, God bless her, drags me home. And I remember walking it and my mother just takes a look at me and she's just crying and she's looking at my father. Why'd you bring me to this country? Why'd you bring me to this country? Says that, and they don't call the police. Cause”
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“And I remember watching him and thinking, I will never be like him. Will never be silent. I will never not fight. And for him, you know, I think that that was the task that you had to pay to be in this country. And I think there's so many microaggressions or just obvious racism that he faced in the workplace. You know, opportunities he didn't get, the name calling, all of it. He never talked about it. Never made him angry. And I think part of that was about making sure that we had a different life. You know, I have the story that, you know, I've told before, but the last day of eighth grade, you know, it's a big celebration. There's been this girl that had been harassing me the entire time at school, you know, calling me names. Back then, they would call somebody a Haji as a derogatory term for somebody who was brown. And so she called me this name and she said, and she basically challenged me to a fight. And instead of saying no or ignoring her, I was like, all right, I'll meet you at the back of the schoolyard.”
2022-06-06 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Taught Millions Of Women The Most Important Skill: Girls Who Code Founder: Reshma Saujani · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I want you to do better than I'm doing. But so much about Steam was about drawing in the lines, you know, not calling attention to yourself. I was a very different child. You know, I led my first march when I was 13 years old. And, you know, I think there was a moment, I talk about this sometimes, you know, we grew up in this very white working class family in the Midwest. And I was often bullied at school. And my mother was, you know, harassed for wearing a sari at the Kmart. Our house would get tepeed or spray painted and go back to your own country. I remember this one day, some kids had literally spray painted on the side of our house, you know, go back to your own country. And I woke up that morning. My father was sitting, you know, with, you know, a jar of Clorox. And he was just quietly cleaning the side of the house. And I think he was like humming a Bollywood tune.”
2022-06-06 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Taught Millions Of Women The Most Important Skill: Girls Who Code Founder: Reshma Saujani · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think they wanted me to be a doctor, a lawyer, or an engineer. And they wanted me to have a career where I could, you know, be upwardly mobile, right? For them, it's always about like, okay, if we're making $40,000 a year, I want you to make $80.”
2022-06-06 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Taught Millions Of Women The Most Important Skill: Girls Who Code Founder: Reshma Saujani · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Well, my parents escaped the dictator Edmin in 1973. They changed their names from Mukund and Madu to Mina and Mike because I think a recruiter told my dad that the only way he was going to get a job as an engineer instead of he was working as a machinist in a factory was to change his name. I think about them often because I can't imagine in my 20s coming to a new country, leaving your entire family or having to leave your entire family, not having a single person that you know, not knowing the language, and having to build a life for yourself. And they did it. They did it with a smile. They never really complained about it. And then everything became about giving us the life that they had sacrificed so much to have.”
2022-06-06 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Taught Millions Of Women The Most Important Skill: Girls Who Code Founder: Reshma Saujani · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, at the same time, I was trying to build girls who code. I was trying to have a baby. I had more miscarriages than I can count. Think when you are a social entrepreneur and you're building something, the work is never done. And it's always at the sacrifice of others. For me, I got that really wrong. Really wrong.”
2022-06-06 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Taught Millions Of Women The Most Important Skill: Girls Who Code Founder: Reshma Saujani · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was often bullied at school. Our house would get spray painted, go back to your own country. And my mother just takes a look at me and she's just crying. And I remember thinking, I will never be silent. So I ran for Congress. The New York Times finally acknowledged my race and they sent a reporter and were knocking on doors where we had young girls having my poster up. She then decides to write a story about my shoes. Not buying into that bullshit. I wasn't going to let failure break me. When I started goals of code, 0.4% of girls were interested in coding. And then we ended up with 10,000 girls who code clubs. And then we exploded in India and in the UK. And girls were interested in making the world a better place.”
2022-06-06 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Taught Millions Of Women The Most Important Skill: Girls Who Code Founder: Reshma Saujani · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT