WOMEN

The gender pay gap isn't just about discrimination — it's about negotiation. Women are taught to be grateful for offers. Men are taught to negotiate. I'm teaching women to negotiate like men. Actually, better than men.

Women make up half the population and control a third of investable assets. The industry needs to stop treating female investors as a niche.

The internet has become the world's largest unregulated playground, and women are often paying the price.

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

Don't sit around and wait for someone to give you a seat at the table. Build your own table.

At Bumble, the woman always makes the first move. That one decision changes the entire dynamic.

I started the Foundation because I got lucky and had access. Most women entrepreneurs don't. That has to change.

When you invest in women, you invest in everyone. The data on this is overwhelming — it's not opinion, it's economics.

Being a female founder in Latin America means being told no by people who have never heard the word applied to themselves.

I wanted to be a brewmaster like my father. No brewery in India would hire a woman. Biotechnology was my second choice — and my best decision.

Banks wouldn't lend to a 25-year-old woman starting a biotech company in 1978. So I started with $200 in my garage.

Teach girls to be brave, not perfect. Perfectionism kills more ambition than failure ever could.

We tell girls to play it safe and do everything right. We tell boys to be brave and try things. Then we are surprised that men dominate every risk-taking field.

The gender pay gap is not a negotiation problem. It is a structural problem. We will not close it by teaching women to ask better questions at their annual reviews.

People say the WNBA is a passion project. No. The NBA is a passion project too — it just gets paid like a business. Women's sport generates value. Pay for the value.

I have played in Russia, Turkey, and Spain in the off-season for twenty years. That is not a travel story. That is the economic reality of women's basketball.

Women are half the population. An economy that ignores half its talent is an economy working at half capacity.

You do not need permission to be competent. Eventually the world catches up.

Being pregnant at my IPO was not a statement. It was just Tuesday.

A woman who is financially independent does not need permission to be generous. That independence is the foundation of everything.

I didn't grow up surrounded by women, and I'm very hungry for it. I believe that many of us feel this way.