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My First 16: Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid’s Zach Perret

Andreessen Horowitz

But along the way we found that the tool that we’d built was really interesting to a lot of other developers. So, myself and my co founder, we were kind of software developers, like kind of engineers by background. H ow did you guys think about the API that you wanted to launch with for other developers to build on?

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Confidence and the Gender Gap: 14 Tips for Women in Tech

Sylvia Ng

An organization needs to remove sexual harassment and biases to attract and maintain women employees before it can develop pay parity. Then, as more women to begin to work there, it can start developing women into management positions, which is required before the proverbial glass ceiling can be broken. Act like you belong.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pipe and MessageBird — March 13, 2020

SaaStr

So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. And I guess this was somewhat foreshadowing because I’m now backed by David Saks who is the founding team there. Our team met with David just a few days after our initial conversation in San Francisco.