Possibly a little OT, but am I the only one tired of "Under 30" lists? We already have a problem with ageism in this industry and when it comes to women, I think we're really doing a disservice to those who have long been in the field (and dealing with the problems that brings) but haven't gotten the recognition they deserve.
Ageism aside, the nice thing about "under X years" lists is that it keeps it fresh so that we don't end up with the same repetitive churn of names that we have all seen a million times.
I didn't recognize any names on this list, which was refreshingly nice.
I think that when we're including non-technical founders and marketing managers, it waters it down. Not to belittle anyone's achievements on the list, but realistically, you might as well put women working at Geek Squad on here, too, as they're inherently more technical than some of these titles. There's no reason to grasp at straws when it just takes some phone calls and emails to tech companies asking who their all-stars are.
Instead, these lists are almost always done by nomination (as this one was), which means in the end it is just a popularity contest for those who knew about it. Even if you didn't know who that person was, chances are enough people did to get them there in the first place (or worse, it was gamed).
Not a fan of outsourcing your content to whoever can put a name in a hat the most.
That's my issue with this list too. I usually get excited finding a list like this, hoping to find other like-minded women to look up to as a young engineer. But from that list, only roughly 10% of them are actual engineers with the rest being more business and marketing oriented and I just can't relate to them all that much.
At least it's not a load of non-technical founders of 'pink' startups (fashion, kids etc) and tech tv presenters, as these things tend towards. Found some cool people to follow on Twitter, anyhow.
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would be a much better article.
(Come to think of it, the count should be open ended too. So just "Things in sectors" will do).
I didn't recognize any names on this list, which was refreshingly nice.
Instead, these lists are almost always done by nomination (as this one was), which means in the end it is just a popularity contest for those who knew about it. Even if you didn't know who that person was, chances are enough people did to get them there in the first place (or worse, it was gamed).
Not a fan of outsourcing your content to whoever can put a name in a hat the most.