From buzzy memoir Uncanny Valley to Susan Fowler’s tell-all about her time at Uber, 2020 is a highly anticipated year for book releases aimed at tech workers. I surveyed hundreds of women in tech working in Silicon Valley about what books they are most excited to read in 2020. …

Living in Silicon Valley, I’m constantly told by other entrepreneurs about the benefits of the ketogenic diet, or “keto” for short. Entrepreneurs swear by it and claim it is “game-changing” for energy and focus. …

Vivian Lee signed up for Lunchclub in San Francisco to brainstorm with peers and learn from others how to transition from a career in product management to product design. She was working as product manager for a startup in San Francisco where her work included a mix of product and…

Marketplaces in theory and in practice — We’re excited to announce our first Lunchclub Fireside event of the fall, a conversation about marketplaces with Li Jin, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and Scott Kominers, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Bloomberg Opinion contributor. Join us for a conversation with 8–10 other guests tomorrow evening in SoMa, San Francisco. Ask Li and Scott about managed marketplaces, network effects, and marketplace design! Apply here to join us: https://lunchclub.ai/fireside/ and share with friends and colleagues.

Air Quality Panel Discussion — Recently I attended a panel discussion with air quality experts to discuss what impacts San Francisco’s air quality, how health and wellness are impacted, and what residents can do about it at Dyson in San Francisco. The panel of air quality and health experts included: Jeff Blair, CEO and Cofounder…

For women-led startup valuations, 2019 has been a great year. The number of women-founded unicorns increased this year after Emily Weiss’s Glossier, Jennifer Hyman’s Rent the Runway, and Steph Korey’s Away achieved unicorn status, a marker of startup success. As of May 2018, of 130 venture capital-backed unicorns in the…

Veteran entrepreneurs Amy Parker and Gina Pell have been in the business of building communities for women, both online and offline, years before social networks were created. They are the founders of The What, a weekly newsletter with exceptional recommendations and a private community of 38,000+ women. …

I set off on this journey four months pregnant and raised money from venture capitalists to reinvent the vitamin from the ground up. This October, Ritual — the LA-based, women’s once-daily vitamin company — launches Essential Prenatal, a completely reimagined prenatal vitamin that encases the 12 most critical, health-vital nutrients…

As founders, we tell stories to make our ideas come to life. We tell stories to pitch ideas, get buy-in from stakeholders, and convince people to join our companies. Effective communication and persuasion is essential in moving people to action and critical for any founder’s success. Many people get extremely…