Adrian Swinscoe's RARE Business Podcast

Adrian Swinscoe's RARE Business Podcast


Gender and diversity imbalances will impact your ability to connect with and serve your customers – Interview with Adriana Gascoigne of Girls In Tech

August 02, 2019

Today’s interview is with Adriana Gascoigne, founder and CEO of Girls in Tech, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization devoted to empowering, educating and engaging women in the tech industry across 43 chapters in 32 countries. Adriana joins me today to talk about Girls In Tech, her new book: Tech Boss Lady: How to Start-Up, Disrupt, and Thrive as a Female Founder and the impact that gender and diversity imbalances have on an organisation’s ability to best serve its customers. Here’s the highlights of my chat with Adriana: Adriana is author of a new book called Tech Boss Lady: How to Start-Up, Disrupt, and Thrive as a Female Founder. Wrote the book as she was sick and tired of reading startup books and manuals and listening to podcasts where only men were being interviewed. However, there are many awesome women out there that are launching their own startups, creating their own companies, building products and services that are very innovative and very important for society today, not only for the general population, but for women in particular. In writing the book, Adriana interviewed over forty five women and featured twenty two womens stories within the book. You need resiliency to succeed …