Apple, Google, and Salesforce are household names, and so, too, are Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and Marc Benioff, their leaders—men who, according to legend, once upon a time started their world-changing companies with a combination of brilliance, luck, and, above all, swagger. But that’s not the full story. Women played a major role in creating the tech giants of today, and perhaps no one had a bigger impact than—and has been as overlooked as—the pioneering female venture capitalists of Silicon Valley.
In this exclusive excerpt from Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime, author Julian Guthrie introduces us to Mary Jane Elmore and Magdalena Yesil, at one time the only female partners at their venture…
