A WOMAN WITH A GAME PLAN
“DISAGREEABLENESS IS OFTEN FROWNED UPON IN A YOUNG WOMAN, BUT HOW ON EARTH WILL YOU MAKE THE HARD DECISIONS IN BUSINESS IF YOU AREN’T WILLING TO DO THE HARD THINGS?”
At six years old, when other children were perfecting their ABCs, Wendy Chen was learning about data structures from her father. He wasn’t intentionally grooming her into a tech wunderkind. Rather, it was his creative solution to help her learn English. (The family had just uprooted from China to Canada.)
“He used to write computer programs to teach me things. So
