Women in technology

Tan Hooi Ling

Malaysian co-founder of Grab

Susan Wojcicki

Google’s 16th employee and CEO of YouTube from 2014 to 2023

1968 – 2024

Mira Murati

Former OpenAI CTO and founder of Thinking Machines Lab

Born 1988

Marissa Mayer

Google’s first female engineer and CEO of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017

Born 1975

Lisa Su

CEO of AMD who led one of the great turnarounds in the chip industry

Born 1969

Kimberly Bryant

Engineer who founded Black Girls Code

Born 1967

Joy Buolamwini

Computer scientist who exposed bias in facial recognition and founded the Algorithmic Justice League

Jessica Livingston

Co-founder of Y Combinator and author of Founders at Work

Weili Dai

Co-founder of Marvell Technology, one of the few women to co-found a major chip company

Timnit Gebru

AI ethics researcher who founded the DAIR Institute

Susan Kare

Designer who created the original Macintosh icons and fonts

Born 1954

Reshma Saujani

Founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First

Born 1975

Mitchell Baker

Lawyer who led the Mozilla project and launched the Firefox browser

Mary Lou Jepsen

Display pioneer who co-founded One Laptop per Child and founded Openwater

Born 1965

Donna Dubinsky

CEO of Palm who made the PalmPilot a success

Born 1955

Daniela Amodei

Co-founder and president of Anthropic

Cynthia Breazeal

MIT pioneer of social robots who built Kismet and Jibo

Born 1967