Name↕ | Nationality↕ | Born↕ | Company↕ | Role↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Whitney Wolfe Herd | American | 1,989 | Bumble | Founder & CEO | Co-founded Tinder, launched Bumble 2014, youngest woman to take company public (2021) |
Susan Wojcicki | American | 1,968 | YouTube | CEO (2014-2023) | Google employee #16, rented garage to Larry and Sergey, YouTube acquisition driver |
Sheryl Sandberg | American | 1,969 | Facebook / Meta | COO (2008-2022) | Scaled Facebook ad business, Lean In book and movement |
Marissa Mayer | American | 1,975 | Yahoo | CEO (2012-2017) | Google employee #20, first female PM at Google, led Yahoo turnaround attempt |
Meg Whitman | American | 1,956 | eBay, HP | CEO | Grew eBay from 30 to 15,000 employees (1998-2008), HP CEO 2011-2015 |
Jennifer Hyman | American | 1,980 | Rent the Runway | Co-founder & CEO | Founded 2009 at Harvard Business School, first female founder-CEO to IPO in 2021 |
Katrina Lake | American | 1,983 | Stitch Fix | Founder | Founded 2011, took Stitch Fix public 2017, youngest female CEO to IPO at the time |
Anne Wojcicki | American | 1,973 | 23andMe | Co-founder & CEO | Founded 2006, direct-to-consumer DNA testing, took company public via SPAC 2021 |
Julia Hartz | American | 1,979 | Eventbrite | Co-founder & CEO | Founded 2006 with husband, took Eventbrite public 2018 |
Sara Blakely | American | 1,971 | Spanx | Founder | Founded 1998 with $5,000, first self-made female billionaire 2012 |
Melanie Perkins | Australian | 1,987 | Canva | Co-founder & CEO | Founded 2013 in Perth, $40B+ valuation, youngest female tech unicorn CEO |
Reshma Saujani | American | 1,975 | Girls Who Code | Founder | Founded 2012, taught coding to 500,000+ girls |
Lisa Su | Taiwanese-American | 1,969 | AMD | CEO since 2014 | Engineered AMD turnaround, Ryzen/EPYC chips, IEEE Robert Noyce Medal |
Safra Catz | Israeli-American | 1,961 | Oracle | CEO since 2014 | Led Oracle acquisitions including PeopleSoft and Sun Microsystems |
Ginni Rometty | American | 1,957 | IBM | CEO (2012-2020) | First woman to lead IBM, pushed Watson and cloud transformation |
Tan Hooi Ling | Malaysian | 1,983 | Grab | Co-founder | Southeast Asian super-app, went public via SPAC 2021 |
Kathryn Minshew | American | 1,985 | The Muse | Co-founder & CEO | Career platform founded 2011, 75 million+ users |
Payal Kadakia | American | 1,982 | ClassPass | Founder | Founded 2013, fitness class subscription, sold to Mindbody 2021 |
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