Saujani: Girls Who Code scaled to 3,000 students in three years
Reshma Saujani · a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code? · Jan 2, 2019 · at 10:01
Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, highlights the rapid scale and growth metrics of the non-profit organization since its launch in 2012.
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“Over the past three years, we've been able to grow from 20 girls in 2012 to 3000 today.”
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