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Brianna Wu

American Businesswoman

Born: Jul 6, 1977

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The cost of speaking out is so high for women, I understand why most decide not to. Brianna Wu

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Let's not glamorize abuse. Brianna Wu

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Gamergate taught me that I was stronger than I knew that I was. Brianna Wu

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There are some men that are very threatened by the fact that women play games nowadays. Brianna Wu

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My big lesson from Gamergate is asking the men in charge to do the right thing does not work. So we need women, we need people of color in positions of power not just in the game industry but at social media and tech companies and in Congress. Brianna Wu

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I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, and it took me getting out into the real world and understanding what I faced as a woman in my career to really open up my eyes. Brianna Wu

With my company, Giant Spacekat, I was very angry about the lack of games that portrayed women positively in the video game industry, so I launched my own studio, gave a lot of very talented women jobs, and we made some of the most awesome, empowering games in the business. Brianna Wu

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In politics, I am facing a lot of structural sexism. Brianna Wu

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I've rarely talked about Obama's share of the blame for the rise of the alt-right and Gamergate. Brianna Wu

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I don't regret standing up to Gamergate at all. Brianna Wu

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The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information that sometimes isn't available to them for whatever reason. Brianna Wu

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The public will forgive you almost anything if you're honest about it. Brianna Wu

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Something that's hard for me, I remember being a child in the '80s and looking at this field. It was a field I wanted very much to go into, but I didn't see people who looked like me working in video games. You can't really be it if you can't see it. Brianna Wu

I don't want to be a hardware engineer. That seems like a terrible job. Brianna Wu

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GamerGate has had an almost indescribable toll on my family. Brianna Wu

Family Indescribable Had Almost Toll

A lot of people don't know this about me but actually I started in politics. Brianna Wu

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I work in the tech industry and my husband works in biotech. He's head of IP for a company listed on the NASDAQ. And we have a lot of discussions in tech and biotech about the role of unionization in our industries. Brianna Wu

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When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing. Brianna Wu

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Without competition, Silicon Valley will stop taking risks and will stop innovating. Brianna Wu

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In 1999, I was running my first tech start-up and learning the Unreal Engine, the tool that would define my career as a game developer, when news of Columbine ground all work to a standstill. Brianna Wu

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Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I've been lost in this world ever since. When I was scared because my church said people like me were going to burn in hell, 'Final Fantasy,' 'Dragon Warrior' and 'Super Mario' offered a lifeboat. Brianna Wu

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I am the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a Boston-based studio that's an industry leader in making games for women. We are passionate about creating narrative games for the avalanche of new consumers who don't fit the old gamer stereotype. Brianna Wu

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