4 Magazine / Winter 2014
Ideagen Power List - Leaders, Luminaries, & Individuals of 2016
12 Power 100- Companies 2016
Girls Who Code
Girls Who Code is a nonprofit organization which aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science. The organization runs summer programs which teach computing and programming skills to high school girls. Girls Who Code was founded by Reshma Saujani in 2012 who came up with the idea of creating the organization during her run for the United States Congress when she noticed that schools along her campaign route lacked girls in computer science classrooms. The organization runs programs during the academic year teaching high school girls computing skills like programming, robotics, and web design, with sessions including projects and trips to companies like Twitter and Facebook. There are now over 150 Girls Who Code clubs across America and the organization aims to teach one million girls to code by 2020. By December 2014, three thousand students had completed a Girls Who Code program, 95% of whom went on to major in computer science at university.
Global Good and Research Ideas by Intellectual Ventures
Innovation is weakest for the world’s poorest markets where the potential return on investment doesn’t offset the costly, high-risk R&D needed to tackle life-threatening problems there. As a result, the abundance of technology invented for the world’s wealthiest markets often isn’t applicable or affordable in developing countries. Global Good takes a different approach. Global Good specifically invents technology to improve lives in developing countries and, equally important, we empower companies to build sustainable markets in those countries around our inventions. Our goal is to introduce catalytic inventions that simultaneously fuel and are supported by market forces in developing countries. Supported by Bill Gates and the invention expertise of Intellectual Ventures, Global Good invests our own money into intellectual property and R&D specific to the needs of developing countries. This expertise includes collaboration with Intellectual Ventures Laboratory. Through strategic partnerships like this Global Good develops targeted invention with transferable technology, while maintaining sustainable distribution as to ensure that technology is made affordable and accessible to all.
http://www.intellectualventures.com/globalgood/our-approach
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs is an American multinational banking firm that engages in global investment banking, investment management, securities, and other financial services, primarily with institutional clients. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869 and is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, with additional offices in other international financial centers. The firm provides asset management, mergers and acquisitions advice, prime brokerage, and underwriting services to its clients, which include corporations, governments, and individuals. The firm also engages in market making and private equity deals, and is a primary dealer in the U.S. Treasury security market.