According to statistics, companies with a larger number of women on their boards have a higher success rate. However, females still lag behind men in the startup world. They account for only about 35 percent of the people who get involved in starting businesses in US. The entrepreneurship gender gap, even though is closing, is real and it is "an economic issue that affects everyone" (Overcoming the Gender Gap: Women Entrepreneurs as Economic Drivers, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, September 2011).
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Therese Tucker, CEO and Chairman of BlackLine Systems, is one of those (still rare) examples of successful women in the tech and business world. She founded the company in Los Angeles in 2001 after quitting her executive job at SunGard Treasury Systems because of a midlife crisis. She was bored and wanted to do something different. That is what she told the audience at #TechLA Summer Jam 2014, an event organized by Be Great Partners at the Mack Sennett Studios in Los Angeles.
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