The tales of Silicon Valley’s ‘Alpha Girls’
07 May 2019 |
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Julian Guthrie, author of "Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime," and Theresia Gouw, co-founder of Aspect Ventures, discuss the current venture capital landscape with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology."
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