When Stacy Brown-Philpot joined Google back in 2003, she was one of only about 1,000 employees at the time.

She “took a chance on a company” — something that not every Black person in tech gets to take, she said. And while there, she built the Black Googler Network, an employee resource group cultivating Black leaders at Google and in the tech sphere.

Brown-Philpot is the recent former CEO of TaskRabbit who lead its acquisition by Ikea in 2017. The Wharton School alumna sits on the board of HP and Nordstrom and is a founding member of SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund.

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