Reshma Saujani, founder of the non-profit Girls Who Code, got straight to the point.
“If I had applied to be the CEO of Girls Who Code, I wouldn’t have gotten the job,” she told Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on the latest episode of the duchess’ podcast, “Confessions of a Female Founder.”
“I didn’t code,” Saujani continued. “I majored in polyscience, speech communications, and the only thing I’d ever built was a failed [congressional] campaign,” she said, referring to when she tried running for Congress and lost. (She was the first Indian-American to run for Congress back in 2010).
Saujani’s lack of experience in coding didn’t stop her from launching what has become one of the most well-known coding camps in tech.