无惧非凡 – Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley’s Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime by Julian Guthrie

这本书讲述了令人鼓舞、扣人心弦的真实故事：在硅谷风投圈这个残酷的、高风险的、由男性主导的、改变经济并塑造我们日常生活的世界里，四位女性如何通过勇气和智慧，克服薪酬不平等、各种打击和背叛，挑战性别歧视观念和巨大风险，在工作、家庭、权力、男人、金钱、离婚、孩子、疾病等挑战中披荆斩棘，目睹并参与投资了脸书、推特等科技企业的创立与崛起，成长为硅谷的明星人物，打破并重新制定游戏规则，塑造了今天的硅谷科技行业格局。

这本书以时间为线索，故事从20世纪80年代开始，讲述了玛丽·简、索尼娅、玛格达莱娜、特蕾西娅这四位女性，从童年时期、接受教育，到步入硅谷、白手起家，再到重塑行业、引领硅谷发展等成长中的关键事件和喜怒哀乐。从中我们不仅能看到女性的个人奋斗、事业、婚姻家庭、创造财富、投资智慧、交易法则、改变规则等的博弈与进化，韧性与谦逊，成功与失败，经验与教训，还能看到硅谷风投圈与科技圈的真实运作模式。这本书不仅反映了女性追求自我与探索世界的奋斗历程，还再现了硅谷风投与科技企业演进的脉络。四位鼓舞人心的女性，折射出一幅真实的硅谷创业创新生态图景。

An unforgettable story of four women who, through grit and ingenuity, became stars in the cutthroat, high-stakes, male dominated world of venture capital in Silicon Valley, and helped build some of the foremost companies of our time.

In Alpha Girls, award-winning journalist Julian Guthrie takes readers behind the closed doors of venture capital, an industry that transforms economies and shapes how we live. We follow the lives and careers of four women who were largely written out of history – until now.

Magdalena Yesil, who arrived in America from Turkey with $43 to her name, would go on to receive her electrical engineering degree from Stanford, found some of the first companies to commercialize internet access, and help Marc Benioff build Salesforce. Mary Jane Elmore went from the corn fields of Indiana to Stanford and on to the storied venture capital firm IVP – where she was one of the first women in the U.S. to make partner – only to be pulled back from the glass ceiling by expectations at home. Theresia Gouw, an overachieving first-generation Asian American from a working-class town, dominated the foosball tables at Brown (she would later reluctantly let Sergey Brin win to help Accel Partners court Google), before she helped land and build companies including Facebook, Trulia, Imperva, and ForeScout. Sonja Hoel, a Southerner who became the first woman investing partner at white-glove Menlo Ventures, invested in McAfee, Hotmail, Acme Packet, and F5 Networks. As her star was still rising at Menlo, a personal crisis would turn her into an activist overnight, inspiring her to found an all-women’s investment group and a national nonprofit for girls.

These women, juggling work and family, shaped the tech landscape we know today while overcoming unequal pay, actual punches, betrayals, and the sexist attitudes prevalent in Silicon Valley and in male-dominated industries everywhere. Despite the setbacks, they would rise again to rewrite the rules for an industry they love. In Alpha Girls, Guthrie reveals their untold stories.

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