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5 Women Who Revolutionized Tech and Made Millions

There are many female entrepreneurs in today’s world revolutionizing the tech industry and owning their own unique craft. Before, technology and merchantry was seen as a increasingly male-dominanted industry that women rarely crossed into. That’s no longer the case.

Now, it’s often that you hear of women who find merchantry and tech as something fascinating and starting their own tech-related merchantry from scratch. In fact, within the last 20 years, the number of businesses owned by women has increased by 114%. 

Now in the 2020’s, we have many prominent women who have earned upper rankings in merchantry success by creating their own tech service or product. Here are a few of them below. 

1. Thai Lee 

Thai Lee is the CEO and co-founder of IT software SHI International, which she created with her ex-husband, and has a net worth of $3 billion. Her software has Boeing and AT&T as customers. She is considered one of the wealthiest women in America, plane without starting her merchantry over 30 years ago. 

She was born in Bangkok and moved to the US for her education, peekaboo merchantry school and starting her own career. She kept goals in mind to meet by unrepealable month to pension herself focused. Her long-term merchantry goals and compassion to employees are a key part of her continuous merchantry victory over the past several decades. 

Thai Lee is stated to have initial struggles in launching her business. Despite these troubles, her steel tight focus on her eventual success is what truly launched her into stuff an IT tech legend. Sometimes focus is all you need for real success despite a somewhat wrenched ladder. 

2. Neerja Sethi 

Neerja Sethi is a millionaire, having earned her money from creating Syntel, an IT consulting and outsourcing firm. Neerja sooner sold the firm for $3.4 billion to a French IT firm Atos Se in October 2018. For her stake, Sethi got $510 million. 

Neerja met her husband while working at the pioneering IT firm Tata Consulting Services. They both decided to recreate this type of service in a way they thought would be their own unique success. Hence, she and her husband created Syntel in their suite in Troy, Michigan with a $2,000 investment. 

Their efforts worked and, with some work and energy, created a service worth millions. As of this year, her real time net worth is $1.1 billion. Just considering a unrepealable product or service once works, it doesn’t midpoint it can’t be improved to something better. 

3. Ashley Chen 

Ashley Chen is the founder of the IT firm ActioNet, a service that provides cloud-hosting, cybersecurity and software engineering. If you wanted your virtual and online projects protected from online hackers, she made the product to do just that. ActioNet got rated one of the weightier in the country and Ashley’s IT work plane won an award. 

She obtained her masters in computer science prior to her megacosm and paid just $35 for the domain ActioNet.com in 1997. Safe to say her investment was rewarded. The growth of her merchantry has ripened into double-digit yearly growth every single year since. 

Her parents wanted a variegated life for her, but Ashley was unswayable to own her merchantry and nature hiring the right people who could help her as a hair-trigger part of her success. Her employees moreover scuttlebutt that she has “infectious” energy that keeps them motivated to work. 

“I don’t mind living in a mans world as long as I can be a woman in it.” – Marilyn Monroe

4. Therese Tucker

Therese Tucker has a unique visitation with her unexceptionable colored hair. However, she has a net worth of over $500 million for creating Blackline, an enterprise software visitor that sells accounting-automation software. Just a few of the companies she provides software to is Coca-Cola, Netflix and Google. 

In 2013, she sold a majority stake to private probity firms Silver Lake and Iconiq Capital for a $220 million valuation. She founded the visitor in 2002, cashing in on the entirety of her retirement savings in order to launch her merchantry idea. She is now one of the few female-founder CEOs running a public tech business. 

She dismisses the idea of having “modest ambition” considering then the only upbringing you have will be “boring.” She speaks at upper schools and STEM events to teach other women to excel in tech if that’s what they dream of doing like she did.

5. Whitney Wolfe Herd 

Whitney Herd has wilt the world’s youngest sexuality self-made billionaire in 2021 for her app megacosm Bumble, a social and merchantry app for women. She has moreover wilt the youngest woman to take her merchantry public at 31. 

She founded the app in December of 2014, which resulted in over 15 million conversations and 80 million matches. She got to partner with billionaire Andrey Andreev in 2014, which furthered her career success. She refused a $450 million pay-out and her net worth is currently $1.2 billion. 

Her translating is to icon out what you’re passionate well-nigh and find a way to turn it into a business. She says, “I think everyone can make money at something they’re good at. You have to start somewhere. Just find your passion and lean into it.”