Karlie Kloss
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Like actually.
And then not only that, but like that one person is able to do that because they know this skill set. So what is this skill set? And why do more people not know it? And so I just started very simply with like, taking a, you know, three month course at the Flatiron School. And I was one of the only sort of women in the school. And there were a few, but definitely not enough.
And I was really blown away by sort of just the basic anatomy of like how a
computer works how it was almost like the anatomy of like the hard drive and the you know all of the sort of like machinery it was like it was like a body it's like you have the heart you have the brain you have the veins that connect everything so it sort of demystified the hardware and then the software component too of like front end and back end of how to build a website like Pretty basic.
But it was like very just sort of eye-opening of like, once you can get past the sort of bulky, awkward, or the abstract nature of like code and syntax. But it's like learning, I would imagine, Latin or another language. You know, I learned French. But like, it's like learning a language. And that was sort of, again, another, I think, moment of confidence boost that I was like, you know what?
If I can learn this, like anyone can learn this.
My idea at the point was, how do I get more girls to realize how powerful this is? Like right at the beginning, that's how you felt. That's how I felt at the beginning. It was a very clear like, oh shit, this is very powerful and it's not impossible to learn. This is the future and there aren't many women that are part of it.
This was 2015 and I put out on my social media at the time a very modest sort of scholarship program I was underwriting for 21 girls to experience the same sort of coding bootcamp that I went to.
I think it's because I'm from a big family. That's just what you do. You like, you share. You share the love. You share the love. And I've always been that way. Like, I love to share things I'm discovering or experiencing. So it just was innate. I didn't overthink it. I definitely did not think. Do you remember how much it cost you? Each? Good question. I think the whole thing maybe was like,
Maybe it was a $50,000 donation. Yeah, but it's meaningful.
Not nothing. But I was so excited to sort of support the school.
And I did not think in that moment I was starting an education nonprofit. No.
I'm going to do a good deed. And Emma, when I tell you the response we had to those 21 scholarship slots, thousands, really thousands of young women around the world and actually people, women, men of all ages. And the scholarship specifically was 13 to 18 year old young women in our programs that we wanted to sort of teach these skills. And that's the way the program was designed.
But it sort of really was a moment where I was like, oh, wow, there's a disconnect here of enormous opportunity in these spaces and the lack of access to them. And maybe I should have built a for-profit business at that time around it. But I was like, let me just help connect these dots.
It was so bootstrapped for a very long time. I, you know, we really sort of piecemealed it. Like, Like at the time, you know, I had nobody helping me. I didn't have an assistant. I had nothing. So the founder of the school and I sort of like went through a lot of applications. And, you know, the school really at the time was helpful in operating that first year.
And we, I mean, it was hard to choose. And it is hard to choose because, you know. There's so much need out there. There's so much need. But so what, this is where it's like, I'm so proud to tell you, This summer, for instance, we're going through applications right now. We will have 3,000 scholarships.
This summer alone, we will have 3,000 scholarships for young women around the world. How many women have been through the program? So this is the crazy thing. So from 2015 until now, we have had more than 11,000 young women in our programs around the world. So it started 21 scholarships. The next year was 75. The next year was 150. And then I think Next year was a thousand.
70%.
Compare that to 4% of women in America graduating with computer science degrees. So 70% of our alumni are sort of go through our program and realize the enormous sort of opportunity, not just in tech, candidly. If you want to start a business like yours, if you want to go into beauty, into social entrepreneurship. Yes. Into, you know, climate change, into mental health areas, into medical fields.
Like technical literacy is invaluable, especially when you talk about things like AI, like the evolving world we're living in. I mean, by the way, the entire world will need to be re-skilled as AI is transforming how we live.
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