Bree Clare shared an article with us this morning with the very catchy title Where is the Female Mark Zuckerberg?
It’s an interesting article that hypothesises about female entrepreneurs having the edge over male entrepreneurs in the current ‘boom’.
As I was reading it though, the following sentence struck me:
Silicon Valley has always had its female entrepreneurs—think Sandy Lerner, who cofounded Cisco, and Diane Greene, whose server software company, VMware, was worth a reported $10 billion when she took it public in 2007. But they’ve been rare birds, and largely unsung.
I did not know that. I did know about Sheryl Sandberg from Facebook and Marissa Mayer from Google, but somehow after years in the industry, I’d never heard a mention of Sandy Lerner or Diane Greene, despite the fact that they led legendary companies like Cisco and VMware.
That’s when I fully understood the meaning of the title. They aren’t asking for the female version of Mark Zuckerberg (which is how I understood it initially). What they’re actually talking about is ‘Where are the legendary stories of the female entrepreneurs we’ve had and will we at least hear of one legend in the near future?’
To that end, we’re gonna up our efforts at highlighting the work of female entrepreneurs in the web space. We get to work with some truly awesome female founders here at Pollenizer, and we’ll coax their stories out of them and share them with you.
Who knows, it just might be the first chapter of a new legend!