Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Monday, August 5th.

Today on Forbes, Forbes 50 over 50.

Meet the Women Winning Life's second half.

When Miriam Rivera was born in 1964 to a pair of Puerto Rican migrant farmers in

Dunkirk, New York, women in the United States could not get a credit card or mortgage without a male cosigner.

Although the Civil Rights Act was signed that year, which prohibits discrimination on the

basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, Wall Street was still three years away from seeing its first female member of the New York Stock Exchange.

60 years later, Rivera is thriving as the co-founder and CEO of Ulu Ventures, a Palo Alto

based venture capital firm with $400 million in assets under management, and a portfolio that includes 10 current or recently

exited unicorns. Rivera says that her personal journey, from a free lunch kid learning

English from watching Sesame Street

to Silicon Valley Power Broker is reflected in her investing philosophy.

Rivera says, quote, I'm really looking for those long shots

because in a power law distributed world

it's really the few that will generate a lot of profitability.

Rivera is one of the 200 all new members of our fourth annual 50-over-50 list,

published just last week.

The list is a collection of women who, like Rivera,

have careers that are hitting powerful peaks during life's second half.

Produced in partnership with MSMBC host Mika Brzinsky and her Know Your Value Initiative,

the 50-50 highlights women doing their most innovative, impactful work at age 50, 60, 70, and beyond.

The list is divided into four broad categories.

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