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No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

BONUS: Emily Chang - Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Emily Chang began writing her book "Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley" 2 years ago when a top venture capitalist told her that in order to hire more women at the firm, they would need to lower their standards.  Emily believes in the importance of representation of women in computing, and in this episode she opens up about what her book means in the #MeToo era, the stories from Silicon Valley's parties, and her journey to becoming a journalist from growing up in Hawaii to studying at Harvard. Want to be a featured NLEOTW? Know someone who should? Send your nominations to [email protected] Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! It’s easy! Click here: http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 ABOUT REBECCA JARVIS:  Rebecca Jarvis is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the Chief Biz, Tech and Econ correspondent for ABC News. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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0:00.0

We are talking about people who are changing the world and have more power and money than pretty much anyone else and who have come up with innovative ways to do all of these things that people once thought were impossible.

0:14.9

And yet when asked how to bring more women in the tech industry, they say, I don't know what to do about it.

0:21.9

From ABC, it's no limits.

0:24.9

I'm Rebecca Jarvis, and each week we're talking to the most bold and influential women playing at the top of their game,

0:32.3

trying to demystify success and what it really takes to get there and all the tradeoffs. Whether you're looking

0:39.1

for answers or you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right place. On today's

0:47.0

episode, how Bloomberg's Emily Chang is taking on the tech industry and exposing a culture of

0:52.3

sexism and discrimination that she says has been perpetuated

0:56.1

for years. From the root of the problem to Silicon Valley's second chance, she takes us inside

1:02.0

the world of Brotopia. Emily Chang, welcome to No Limits. Thank you so much for having me, Rebecca.

1:10.4

It's great to be here.

1:11.3

I'm thrilled to have you with us.

1:12.8

You're joining us from Bloomberg in San Francisco right now, host of Bloomberg Technology.

1:18.6

I'm really glad that we have you here to talk about your new book, Brotopia, breaking up the Boys Club of Silicon Valley.

1:25.4

It is, it's a phenomenal read.

1:27.2

There's so much history here that you've

1:29.7

covered and it's so clear that you've done a huge amount of work to get to the point of this book.

1:35.9

Thank you. And I appreciate you shining a light on these issues. You know, a lot of, you know,

1:42.1

the research that I did when I went back, you know, to the 40s and 50s, I was really surprised by what I found.

1:47.7

And I just thought to myself, you know, there was a lot of people in this industry who need to better understand how and why we got here so that we can change it.

1:56.1

Absolutely.

1:56.8

And so much of your history, you've interviewed the biggest names in the industry, Cheryl Sandberg,

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