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Sometimes you have to fail first to learn how to succeed. Reshma Saujani knows all about both.
A Yale-trained attorney, Saujani suspended a successful career in finance to launch a political campaign in 2010, becoming the first Indian-American woman to run for Congress. Unfortunately, she lost the primary. But campaigning had taken her to places a Wall Street lawyer rarely ventures: the classrooms of New York City schools. There, Saujani noticed something glaring about the computer classes: They were pretty much all made up of boys.
Even in 2010, it was obvious to her that tech jobs were the future.
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