Power Up

How Smart Women Win in the New Economy

With Sara Grace

Foreword by Marc Benioff

Read by Troy Wickett

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With empowering insights to help women navigate the narrowest corridors of sexism, tech-industry pioneer Magdalena Yesil shares on-the-ground career advice that is as powerful as any MBA

Pioneering Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Magdalena Yesil came to the United States in 1976 with two suitcases and $43, blind to the challenges she would face as a woman and immigrant in Silicon Valley. Today, she is best known as the first investor and a founding board member of Salesforce, the now-multibillion dollar company that ushered in the era of cloud-based computing.

In Power Up: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy, Yesil urges women to look beyond the alarming gender statistics of the workplace and feel confident entering tech or any field-but also to be prepared to deal with the challenges. She shares what she experienced as a woman in Silicon Valley with surprising candor and heart, relying not just on her insight but that of more than a dozen top women entrepreneurs to offer pragmatic takeaways on topics such as:

Â· Owning career choices while managing risk
Â· Getting credit for your work
Â· Managing sexual dynamics
Â· Recruiting allies in the movement toward a supportive workplace for everyone

Pragmatic, incisive, and full of highly actionable advice, Yesil prepares ambitious women to break glass ceilings and rise to the top in the New Silicon Valley — and beyond.

A Conversation with Magdalena Yesil, author of Power UP: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy

October 5 2017

A Conversation with Magdalena Yesil, author of Power UP: How Smart Women Win in the New Economy

There’s much in the news these days about sexism, harassment, and even sexual abuse in Silicon Valley. Is the situation for women as bad as all that? The problems that these women are describing are real—I’ve witnessed this behavior. There is locker room talk, demeaning comments, and worse—but that doesn’t mean that as a woman…

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