Who you are defines how you build.

This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series.

Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.

Welcome YouTube and Stanford communities to this week's Entrepreneurial Thought Leader seminar.

I am Ravi Balani, a lecture in the

management science and engineering department at Stanford and the director of alchemist and

accelerator for enterprise startups. And the entrepreneurial thought leader series is brought to you

by STBP, the Entrepreneurship Center, the Entrepreneurship Center in the School of Engineering at

Stanford and Basis, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students. Today I am thrilled to welcome Reishma

Saujani to ETL. Reishma is the founder of Girls Who Code, a nonprofit, but high impact and highly

socially profitable organization, which is all about closing the gender gap in tech.

They are building the world's largest pipeline of female engineers, and their programming has reached hundreds of thousands of girls around the country.

Reshma graduated with the degree in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

and then went on to earn graduate degrees from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

and a JD from Yale Law School.

From there, she pursued a legal career while also becoming active as an organizer in the Democratic Party.

And in fact, in 2009, Rayshma decided to run in the Democratic primary

in New York's 14th congressional district.

And while she ultimately lost the race, and if you haven't seen the TED Talk, you definitely

should check her TED talk out. That experience also sent her in a new direction. And three years

later, she founded Girls Who Code. Rayshma is also the author of three books, Brave, Not Perfect, Girls Who Code, Learn to Code

and Change the World, and Women Who Don't Wait in Line.

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