Valley Girls: Lessons From Female Founders in the Silicon Valley and Beyond
Written by Kelley Steven-Waiss
Narrated by Lauren Berst
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About this audiobook
Valley Girls is an impassioned call-to-action and a clear-eyed guide for every woman with a brilliant business idea who has been sitting on the sidelines. It offers inspiration, role models, and a clear path to empower women to follow their dreams.
Author Kelley Steven-Waiss, founder and former CEO of the SaaS tech start-up Hitch Works (“Hitch”), knew that less than 3% of venture capital went to all-women founding teams in the year she set out to be an entrepreneur. And yet, she managed to succeed. Now, she gives other women the benefit of her experience as well as that of the diverse female founders she interviewed. What did they all have in common? Which strategies brought success and which failed? How did they persevere through the hard times? This practical, hands-on guide and the powerful and passionate women profiled in it answer these questions and more, paving the way for all women to succeed.
Kelley Steven-Waiss
KELLEY STEVEN-WAISS is a Chief Transformation Officer at ServiceNow. Prior, she was the founder and CEO of Hitch Works Inc. (acquired by ServiceNow in 2022), a cloud-based skills mapping and intelligence platform,that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to match project-based opportunities to internal employee skill profiles. Before becoming an entrepreneur, she spent over twenty-five years in executive management and consulting, including 13+ years as a CHRO. Kelley is a sought-after speaker on the future of work, a board director for FormFactor, Inc., and is passionate about promoting and mentoring future female founders. Her first book was The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity (2020). Currently based in Los Gatos, California, she is married and the mother of four.
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