Thursday, 9 June 2016

Women in IT - Laura Gomez

Who is she?
Laura Gomez is a Latina woman who is listed in Glamour's 35 women under 35 changing the Tech Industry for her outstanding performance in the tech industry. She worked at Twitter where she managed Twitter en Espanol and was a founding member of their international team. The team was responsible for managing the social network to 28 languages. She also worked at Jawbone where she played a similar role.

What has she done?
She now has her own company, named Vyv, which according to their AngelList profile "is a content discovery platform powered by user-centric technologies which validate the accuracy of breaking news, surface diverse and relevant perspectives from around the web and create a radical way for content creators to monetize their work". Users will publish content and get paid for it according to its popularity using Bitcoin, a virtual currency.

She's proud of being active and trying to make sure that the gap between technology and public policy is bridged.

Laura I Gomez.
Photo Credit: Google Images.

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