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Tell me about your vision.

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About my vision.

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My vision is that we have equal representation of women in the C-suite.

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So I'll share, maybe I'll elaborate a little bit.

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So I want to see more women in executive roles.

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Right now, if you look at research, researches that are done, representation of women,

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although like we're around 50% of the population, when you go into corporate

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and you see the representation of women, entry-level, mid-management, senior leadership,

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and executive C-suite, meaning CTO, CFO, all those executive roles,

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see the numbers drop.

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Less and less women get to those roles.

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And when you look at founders, similarly, not many women start their own companies,

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and also the statistics around funding for women-led startups is very low.

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So my vision is to see that changes and to see more representation of women in those roles,

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in leadership roles.

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And that's why I do what I do.

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That's a very unique and great vision.

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But you mentioned some statistics about it.

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Where are those statistics that you got from?

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I'm usually looking at the McKinsey and Lin-Inn org report.

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They have this report going out once a year.

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Forgot the name, to be honest.

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So they have this report that they do, very extensive report,

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and they have different statistics about representation of women at different roles.

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And not just women as a whole, but also women of color,

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different white women versus women of color versus black women.

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So they do a lot of good work, and they publish it every year.

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Okay, that is awesome.

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I want to isolate the C-suite.

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Why did you only choose C-suite, not anything else?

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That's the end goal.

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And the end goal goes through getting more women to stay in tech.

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So my focus is mainly on tech, because that's my background.

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So it starts with having women get to leadership and then thrive and stay.

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But the end goal, eventually, if you ask me, okay, what's the success criteria,

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eventually, is to see more women, at least for me, that's my own definition of success,

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to see more women get to the C-suite, because that's where decisions are being made.

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That's where the impact is made.

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And women should be there.