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Kathy Zhou - Female Software Engineer in Silicon Valley
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Kathy Zhou is the CTO & Co-Founder of Queenly, the leading marketplace and search engine for the formalwear industry. Kathy graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in computer and environmental science. Afterward, she was a full-stack software engineer at Pinterest, building end-to-end products from the ML/data backend to web and mobile front-end applications. Kathy will discuss how Queenly came to be and how being a female software engineer in Silicon Valley has shaped her into being an elite businesswoman.
Kathy Zhou Bio:
Kathy is a University of Pennsylvania graduate with a degree in Computer Science and Environmental Science. She has worked at Venmo and most recently Pinterest, where she has drawn a lot of inspiration from, in order to Queenly's robust search engine. She is a super full-stack product engineer that has built web, iOS, and backend and she has also competed in a handful of pageants prior to building the largest marketplace for formalwear.
"Queenly, a marketplace for formalwear, launched into a world where its core product of dresses and gowns had a massive competitor, bigger and more elusive than Poshmark: quarantine.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused the fancy in-person events that one might attend, such as award shows, pageants, proms, and weddings to be canceled to limit spread. But despite the fact that you might be rocking sweats over slacks, Queenly co-founders Trisha Bantigue and Kathy Zhou say that they had half a million in sales last year, and over 100,000 people visit their website every day.
“So many women bought dresses to just dress up and feel normal at home when everything else around the world was not,” Bantigue said. “It helped them feel grounded and stabilize themselves in this crazy chaotic pandemic environment.” The canceled events have also found new homes, such as Zoom weddings, Twitch pageants, socially distant proms, and graduation car parades. The co-founder added that content creators on TikTok and YouTube have also bought Queenly dresses." https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/18/yc-backed-queenly-launches-a-marketplace-for-formalwear/
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