Calling all female CEOs and Founders!!!

Jason would like to reach out to the women in tech for a guest appearance on TWiST.  Our thoughts have focused on bringing in someone who has either raise a venture capital round, has a site in the top 1,000 on Quantcast or a notable product, etc.  While impossible for us to know everyone, we would like some suggestions.   Who would you like to see on TWiST?

Please leave your suggestions in the comments

22 Responses to “Calling all female CEOs and Founders!!!”

  1. subbu arumugam says:

    can you guys try for a double down? get caterina fake and chris dixon of hunch?

  2. Sidharth says:

    Rashmi Sinha, CEO of slideshare

  3. Heather Harde CEO of TechCrunch

  4. HN says:

    Alexis and Alexandra, Gilt Groupe
    http://www.gilt.com/company/

  5. Alec says:

    Maria Sipka, CEO and Founder of Linqia
    http://linqia.com/

    Here is her interview on Mixergy:

    http://mixergy.com/you-can-make-everything-you-want-come-true-with-maria-sipka/

    Twitter: @mariasipka

  6. james shamenski says:

    International Checkout.
    7.2m in revenue.
    Santa Monica / Van Nuys

    http://www.InternationalCheckout.com
    Assumes fraud risk, fulfillment, customs documentation, merchandise returns, and customer service functions for online merchants. International Checkout offers multi-lingual customer service, and order fulfillment to more than 250 worldwide locations.

  7. Rebecca says:

    Check out those sticks..

  8. Rebecca says:

    Guess I should have added the address.

    http://www.paraben-sticks.com

    Now you can see if he really is surfing porn or your kids are giving out too much info.

  9. Rebecca says:

    I would like to see the CEO of this company

    Amber Schroader

  10. Caterina Fake or Rashmi Sinha

  11. Rick Mason says:

    Definitely Kim Polese who has succeeded in web 1.0 with Marimba and web 2.0 with SpikeSource.

  12. I would like to see Donna Novitsky and Whitcanack, founders of BigTent. They have absolutely cornered the local Mother’s Club and local community website market, taking share away from Yahoo Groups.

  13. scott says:

    Alicia Morga, Founder and CEO of Consorte Media

    http://www.consortemedia.com/corporate/en/company/profile

    Prior to founding Consorte Media, Alicia was an investment professional focused on U.S. venture opportunities in the technology sector for The Carlyle Group’s U.S. Venture Fund. Prior to joining Carlyle, Alicia was with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners where she focused on early-stage software investments. Prior to Hummer Winblad, Alicia worked as a corporate attorney for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Prior to that, Alicia worked in investment banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Alicia holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and received her B.A. from Stanford University.

  14. I’d love to see Caterina Fake or Gina Bianchini.

  15. Heinrich says:

    Victoria Ransom : CEO of WIldfireApp

    http://www.wildfireapp.com

    They’ve won Facebook Fund twice

  16. Evan reas says:

    I want to see Jessica Jackley, cofounder of Kiva.org and now founder and CEO of Profounder. If you have never heard her speak, find her on YouTube. She’s inspirational!

  17. Luke Miles says:

    +1 for Victoria Ransom, Founder & CEO of Wildfire… she is hot, smart, has charisma and would kick your ass Jason :)

    http://wildfireapp.com/buzz/team

  18. Stacy Ratner says:

    Genevieve Thiers, Founder and CEO at Sittercity.com
    http://www.sittercity.com/mediaceo.html

  19. Mary says:

    Genevieve Thiers, founder of Sittercity.com. She’s amazing; took the nugget of an idea and developed not only a successful multi-million dollar company, but an entire industry.

  20. Caterina Fake of Flickr and now Hunch.
    Marissa Mayer of Google – though she is not a founder, she would be interesting

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