Tracy Chow

Founder and CEO, Block Party · 1 appearance on the record.

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After working as an early software engineer at Quora and Pinterest, Chou founded Block Party, an online safety and privacy platform. She is widely recognized for sparking Silicon Valley's public diversity reckoning by crowdsourcing numbers on female software engineers, and she later co-founded the advocacy organization Project Include.

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Chou: 1980s personal computer marketing shifted to target boys and men

“In the eighties, computers started to become more popular. They started to become this concept of like personal computers that people would actually bring to their homes, but they started to become more marketed as things for boys and men.”

Tracy Chow Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:35 a16z Podcast | Coding as Literacy

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Insight

Chou: Developers struggle to build products outside their lived experience

“Right now the population of software developers can't see those problems, and it's gonna have a hard time building out those solutions. It's not to say that people can't build apps for people who aren't themselves, it just takes a lot more work and a lot more …”

Tracy Chow Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:45 a16z Podcast | Coding as Literacy

Insight

Chou: Software engineers must act as both architects and construction workers

“Building a software application is somewhat like building a physical building except that the software engineer also has to be a bit of an architect, as well as a construction worker.”

Tracy Chow Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:16 a16z Podcast | Coding as Literacy