① this woman started a software company (hiring only women!) and wound up minting around 70 millionaires in addition to her own wealth
Desert Island Discs with Dame Steve Shirley —http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sf7hx#play …
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② she ran it as a co-operative, pushing the boundaries of what existing law provisioned for
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③ English via kindertransport & survived the tragic death of her son; is in her eighties and works still "to prove my life was worth saving"
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I am reading her bio right now also. Someone made of such tough stuff reminds me how easy my life is.
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Also in this genre was Ping Fu's "Bend not Break" — surviving & overcoming unreal adversityhttps://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/465342725978464256 …
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she's awesome. You might like interview I did w/
@DameStephanie_ https://youtu.be/-BN9bfQFg-U + her TEDhttps://www.ted.com/talks/dame_stephanie_shirley_why_do_ambitious_women_have_flat_heads?language=en … -
yes! Watching this is what triggered me to find & read her book! (Great interview - thank you for this!)
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aha! Well, I'm glad you found her. True inspiration
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