Episode 504 • • 11:31 - 14:34
504: Twelve Fourteen
Girls Who Code, Nonprofit Tech Initiatives and Corporate Sponsorship
Girls Who Code is a nonprofit organization aimed at teaching young women robotics, web design, and programming. Despite its nonprofit status, the organization maintains a "brain trust" and receives significant funding from major corporations including AT&T, Twitter, GE, and Goldman Sachs. Critics suggest these programs may be designed to flood the market with low-wage coders rather than fostering genuine entrepreneurship.