How I Taught Millions Of Women The Most Important Skill: Girls Who Code Founder: Reshma Saujani

figure out how to teach every single girl to code, that's how the world's gonna be a better place. Found CEO of Girls Who Code, bestselling author, Reshma Sun. I was often bullied at school. Our house would get spray painted, go back to your own country. And my mother just takes a look at me and she's just crying. And I remember thinking, I will never Be silent. So I ran for Congress.

The New York Times finally acknowledged my race and they sent a reporter. They were knocking on doors, we had young girls having my poster up. She then decides to write a story about my shoes. I'm not buying into that bullshit. I wasn't gonna let failure break me. When I started Girls Who Code, 0.4% of girls were interested in coding. And then we ended up with 10,000 girls who code clubs. And then we exploded in India and in the UK, and girls were interested in making the world a better place. In building Go Through Code, tell me about the other side. You know, at the same time I was trying to build girls who code, I was trying to have a baby. I had more miscarriages than I can count.

Think when you are a social entrepreneur and you're building something, the work is never done. And it's always at the sacrifice of others. For me I got that really wrong. Really wrong. So what advice would you s give to people who are probably veering towards another rock bottom in their lives.

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