Amanda Knox
š¤ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's a bunch of white boys in hoodies.
I'm not really a hoodie girl.
This is not for me.
I don't know anything about tech.
So I really had this imposter syndrome that I didn't belong in the industry.
But I had already worked on...
Roper Simmons, which was a landmark Supreme Court case.
I had lobbied in the UN.
I had worked on voting rights laws at the NAACP.
So all of this stuff that I had done, but I still didn't see a reflection of myself in the industry.
And so...
I remembered when I first got the offer to go, and it was also, it was foreign.
I think Soledad O'Brien had did this special on CNN about Silicon Valley, and that was probably maybe the first time I think
I could say I had been really exposed.
So when they first told me, I was calling it silicone.
And I'll never forget, I went to the dinner with my friend, Albert Sanders.
And he was, you know, it was like, you know, back in D.C., remember Coast?
Yes.
Like, we thought we was doing something.
We'd go to lunch at Coast.