Mastering the Juggling Act: 4 Successful Moms in Tech
Hunker down, mamas. You’ve got your work cut out for you, whether you’re at home or in the office. Because every mother is a working mother, even if only some collect a paycheck.
No matter which side of the Mommy Wars you’re on — Team Stay-Home-Mom or Team Career Mama — the truth is, you’ll always be waging the war to balance the endless demands of motherhood to some level.
So, in honor of Mother’s Day — which, mark your calendars and start planning those handmade cards and breakfasts-in-bed, kids, is this Sunday — this full-time working tech journalist mama of three put together a list of remarkable moms in tech, masters of what feels to me like biggest, most challenging juggling act of them all: Simultaneously rocking your career and motherhood.
Not only are these inspiring women busy breaking down the gender barrier in Silicon Valley’s male-dominated technology industry, they’re raising kids while doing it.
1. Julia Hartz
Julia Hartz is a mother of two and the co-founder and CEO ofEventbrite, a San Francisco tech startup that democratized event ticketing. The self-service online ticketing platform allows anyone — not just headliner bands and major sports teams — to organize, social media promote and sell tickets for venues.
Since launching in 2006, the company grossed $2 billion in ticket sales in 198 countries. Hartz, a former TV executive who helped the goof-offs behind Jackass blow up in the mainstream, oversees a team of some 300 “Britelings,” all while juggling daily mom duties, a subject she has intimately written about on Eventbrite’s blog.
Her two saving graces, she wrote, in the battle to “do it all” as a mom and as tech executive have been the ability to prioritize and realizing that it’s okay to accept others’ help.
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