7 Women Founders Making Moves in Tech

Women have been making their way into the technology market for a while now, and it's great to see them flourish in a male-dominated branch. I think they should often be paid more than men, because there are a lot of setback on their journey; setbacks that men don't have to deal with, you can find out a lot on women in tech through the social encyclopedia.
Elizabeth Holmes
The San Francisco transplant founded Theranos, a blood test company now worth more than $10 billion, when she was a 19-year-old engineering student at Stanford. She dropped out of the elite university, and used the money her parents had saved to put toward her career. Holmes completely transformed the health care industry by making blood testing less painful and more efficient.
Ruzwana Bashir
She is another woman that is making moves in tech and is originally from England, Bashir is of Pakistani descent and on Forbes 30 Under 30 in Technology list. After graduating from Oxford and Harvard Business School, she started her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and private equity at Blackstone Group. In 2012, she founded Peek, which functions like Open Table but for vacation activities. It has received funding from Jack Dorsey and other tech big wigs. Bashir also used her success as a way to speak out against sexual abuse because of personal trauma.
Marissa Mayer
The current President and CEO of Yahoo started out as a pre-med student at Stanford, but before she graduated she would switch to symbolic systems and specialize in artificial intelligence. Mayer received 14 job offers when she graduated from Stanford, and took a job at Google as the company's first female engineer and their 20th employee.
Angela Ahrendts
The Indiana native left her position as CEO of Burberry in 2014, where she tripled the luxury fashion company's revenue during her tenure, according to Forbes. Ahrendts was hired by Apple, where she remains the company's sole female senior executive.
Amy Hood
Amy Hood is the first female chief financial officer of Microsoft Corporation, a position she has been holding since 2013. Hood joined Microsoft in 2002 and has been holding several senior-level positions since then, including corporate vice president and general manager.
Susan Wojcicki
Next powerful women on our social encyclopedia list is Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube. Google's employee No. 16, Wojcicki took over as head of the world's largest video platform YouTube in 2014. Before this she was Google consigliere for Google's ads and commerce.
Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer of the world's largest social network Facebook since 2012. Sandberg and is ranked on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World.