Apple CEO Tim Cook claims that there are still “not enough women at the table” in the world’s technology companies, including his own.Infomation Guide Nigeria
Mr. Cook told the BBC in an exclusive interview that without a more diverse workforce, technology “will not achieve nearly what it could achieve.”
He stated that there were “no good excuses“ for the lack of women in the sector.
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He also described Augmented Reality (AR) and the concept of the Metaverse as “profound.”
“In the future people will wonder how we lived without AR,“ he says. “We’re investing a tonne in that space.”
She said she belongs to some WhatsApp groups for founders, and that some of those are 90% male.
“[The women] all know each other on a first-name basis, which is crazy, because there are so many men that are building start-ups, and they definitely don’t know each other.”
Ariana Alexander-Sefre runs Spoke, a wellness app aimed at young people, which she created after her younger brother lost a friend to suicide.Jamb Result
“I hope that in five years, that there’s not even going be a thing of female founder, or there’s not even going to be a defined niche because, you know, there will just be so many different people working on different things,” she says.
“I’d love to see the whole playing field just equalised.“
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