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I'm going to talk about it, what has changed in the past couple of years, and of course, what hasn't Michelle, welcome to Reco D-Code.

Thank you for having me.

So you're just going to talk and tell me things.

I would love to know what's good, let's go through what you do, tell the people what you've done in your long and storied career.

Okay, so I am a independent market research consultant, and I work mainly with digital media companies.

So my clients have been Pinterest, Twitter, Cheg, Baby Center, Postmates, Uber, etc.

My last full-time job was at Yahoo, where I ran market research from 2003 to 2007.

And you find out people didn't like Yahoo.

They did at the time. It was a good time to be at Yahoo.

Yeah, I know.

And I'm here because I'm co-author of the Elephant Valley, which I'm going to talk about, but I kind of got into this project in a very sideways manner.

Right. So most people that we've heard about who are talking about gender bias in tech had something bad happen to them.

Ellen Pous was in follower, etc.

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