Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Today, a leading Silicon Valley entrepreneur tells us it's time we talk seriously about the trade-offs in our internet age.

Security versus privacy. What is it that really matters to us?

Cheap short-term rentals or neighborhoods with locals that can actually

afford the rents. What is the kind of trade-off that we are okay to take? Is it time to seriously

regulate big technology? It will take such a shift of political will and such a kind of shift of

mood to actually get real radical action, that when

that comes, I don't want it to be something that won't actually fix it.

That's all to come on Business Daily from the BBC.

What I find fascinating with the tech industry is that it is an industry that takes pride in solving the unsolvable, in making the

impossible possible, in putting a man on the moon, and about really attacking the hardest possible

problem and finding a solution. And yet somehow they keep being completely baffled by how to make sure that we have more women

and more people of color through the whole computer science education and then in their pipeline.

I find that extremely surprising.

Some of the thoughts there of Mael Gave.

She's a French-born tech entrepreneur with experience from building firms in Russia, India, South Africa,

and most recently she was chief operating officer of the mostly online real estate broker Compass Inc in the United States.

She's been listed as one of the most influential women in US tech,

and she's just written a book about her experiences and impressions of the industry.

Called Trampled by Unicorns, it's a hard-hitting critique of what she sees as the cultural deficits of Silicon Valley.

For example, about the lack of diversity, as we heard, which she says can't be brushed away by tech executives

pointing to parents and high schools failing to produce black and female engineers at school

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