CHAPTER 8
THE ART OF THE ASK
Alley to the Valley started in 2010 in a phone conversation between Deborah and Janet Hansen, the founder of 85 Broads (later known as Elevate Network) and a former executive at Goldman Sachs. Janet asked Deborah, “What is going on with the women in Silicon Valley? Whatever it is, can you bottle it up and send it here to the women on the East Coast?”
Deborah had moved to Silicon Valley from the East Coast in 2006, so she knew exactly where Janet was going. Irrespective of the less-than-flattering media attention given to gender inequity in tech and venture capital, there is a hubris, an ability to push the envelope, and a comfort in being in the driver’s seat among Silicon Valley women, making many of them very prosperous ...
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