Women Rise- Day 2- Women in Tech
Welcome to Women Rise NFT 3 Day Event in lead up to our drop! This is Day 2 featuring a conversation with some wonderful Women in Tech.
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Host: Abbey
Speakers:
Brittany Laughlin, Stacks Foundation
https://twitter.com/br_ttany
Brittany Laughlin is the Executive Director of the Stacks Foundation. She's spent the last decade working at the intersection of community, capital, and internet collaboration.
Over the past five years she's worked in the blockchain industry as an operator and venture investor. Most recently working at Blockstack PBC to help conduct the first US-qualified Reg A offering, grow the Blockstack ecosystem in Asia, and create partnerships to further access to STX.
Prior to joining Blockstack PBC, Laughlin worked at Union Square Ventures. She got involved in the development of Web 3 through work with Coinbase, Blockstack, IPFS, Mediachain, and OpenBazaar. In 2016, Laughlin co-founded her own VC firm, Lattice Ventures, which focused on network effect businesses. Lattice Ventures is in investor in a number of blockchain companies, including Blockstack, Filecoin, SOV Global, and Stronghold.
Laughlin's previous work MongoDB, StackOverflow, Twilio, and Firebase provide great lessons for supporting Blockstack's open-source technology and developer communities.
Laughlin is an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, teaching about blockchain. A serial entrepreneur, she's built 3 companies, including gtrot which sold to Groupon.
Susan Park, Google
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susansoeun
Susan Park is a UX designer at Google. Previously, she was one of the first designers at Greylock backed startup called Gladly, and a co-founder at Lightspeed backed drone startup called Freeskies.
Outside of her life in tech, she is an avid crypto supporter, having invested in BTC since 2014. She loves the world of NFTs and has her own collection that ranges from a MAYC to art by Mad Dog Jones.
She is a strong advocate for women in both the tech and crypto space and is excited to encourage and support more women entering these spaces.
Vanessa Grellet, Coinfund
https://twitter.com/VanessaGrellet_
Vanessa joined us after nearly 5 years with ConsenSys and 15 years in the financial services industry in the US and Europe to head our portfolio company growth initiatives. This means our companies and their founders will receive undivided attention from an industry veteran who has a wealth of experience on how to grow successful blockchain protocols and businesses. Her day-to-day will entail everything from supporting the strategic vision of the teams to advising them with tech roadmap, operations, and raising their profiles and connectivity, while keeping a close pulse on the CoinFund vision and investments as we progress through the blockchain lifecycle.
Blog post:
https://blog.coinfund.io/why-i-joined-coinfund-an-opportunity-to-shape-the-future-of-blockchain-1fa4b1189f44
https://www.finyear.com/Vanessa-Grellet-Joins-CoinFund-as-Head-of-Portfolio-Growth_a44445.html
Ky Polanco, Feminist
@feminist
feminists.co
https://twitter.com/kyrpolanco
Ky Polanco is the Platform Creative Director at Feminist. She is a digital creative committed to equity and equality for all. Feminist is a global community of 6.4m feminists on instagram. It is made up of an internal women-led team, with advisors from intersectional backgrounds, in addition to a network of 12 million creators, educators, activists, and change makers. Through a strategic, progressive approach she connects content and social justice to build community in a divided world.
