When I first started getting involved with tech, I had a lot of heroes. Most of them were completely unlike me. I looked up to characters like Bill Gates and Sergey Brin. In them, I saw something that I wanted to see for a long time: a bunch of nerds, who despite all the bullying and teasing and feelings of isolations, had “made it.” When I first learned about these men (and they were all men), I found solace in the fact that they were too smart and too odd and had yet been successful. Th...
