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The Atlantic Interview

Tracy Chou

The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.4977 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg revisits a persistent problem in the tech industry: Why is it so difficult for people who aren't white and male? He talks with Tracy Chou, an engineer and long-time veteran of the start-up world whose current work focuses on that problem. She discusses her own experiences with harassment and discrimination, and why those experiences didn't drive her out of tech, as they did for many others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Atlantic interview. I'm Jeffrey Goldberg the editor-in-chief of the

0:09.6

Atlantic and today we're going to be talking about a persistent problem in the technology

0:13.6

industry namely where are the women? There are people who do want to do the

0:18.0

right thing and they don't know where to start. My guest is Tracy Chow

0:22.2

she's a leader in the fight for equality in Silicon Valley.

0:25.0

She's a software engineer. She's formerly with Google and Pinterest or Pinterest.

0:30.0

I've never actually heard the word said aloud before.

0:32.0

And she started a group called

0:34.2

Project Include which is there to help companies that want to do better on the issue of

0:38.7

equality.

0:39.7

People who are starting companies or early-stage startups were asking us like okay so I care about diversity

0:46.1

what do I do?

0:48.1

The Tracy Chow welcome to the Atlantic interview.

0:51.6

Thank you so much for having me. Yeah you're in

0:54.0

Cape Town which is far away from where I am. What are you doing in Cape Town? I'm here partly

0:58.6

for holiday and also for a couple of work projects. Holiday, you say that like you're an English person.

1:05.0

I'm trying to pick up the local lingo.

1:06.9

Okay.

1:07.8

So, Tracy, you're a very, very interesting person

1:10.1

and you've had a very, very interesting role

1:11.9

in a large and continuing controversy in the

1:16.2

tech industry.

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