Alpha Girls

Critics Review

• A revelatory, riveting journey into a part of Silicon Valley’s history that has been overshadowed for far too long. Through vivid prose and artful story-telling, Julian Guthrie brings to life the nuanced tales of the struggles and successes of women in the technology industry

  Ashlee Vance, author of Elon Musk

• Julian Guthrie is a mesmerizing storyteller, weaving the life stories of four dynamic women into a page-turning yarn. We don’t just read of but feel the outrageous and often clueless male slights and insults, the double standards and blatant sexism endured by women in the blustery, male-dominated world of Silicon Valley. Yet Alpha Girls leaves you awed by their resilience and their professional feats. A stirring tale of triumph

  Ken Auletta, author, New Yorker media critic

• An extremely important addition to the literary canon of Silicon Valley, told through the honest and specific stories of a handful of individual women. Beautifully done

  Po Bronson, New York Times best-selling author of What Should I Do with My Life

• The women of Alpha Girls had to grow some thick skin to survive and succeed. And succeed they did. Alpha Girls will reshape how you look at women in finance. A must read for women and girls interested in changing the world

  Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and Co-Founder of Ellevest

• The story of four women who entered the tech industry to follow their dreams and managed through hard work and creativity to make those dreams come true. I’m glad Julian has written this book; we need to tell the success stories of women in tech

  Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and investor at Greylock Partners

• If you read one book about women in business, Alpha Girls should be the one. Julian Guthrie has written another dazzler

  Peter Diamandis, New York Times best-selling author, founder and executive chairman of XPRIZE

• Julian Guthrie is the best author writing about Silicon Valley today, and Alpha Girls is the book that the world needs right now. It’s the real story behind the largest legal creation of wealth in the history of the planet. If you are a woman who works, or simply work with women, Alpha Girls is essential reading

  Adam Fisher, author, Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley

• An intimate and addictive homage to the fearless female pioneers who made Silicon Valley blossom. Julian’s vivid portrayals of once-hidden risk takers and mavericks will leave you heartbroken, hopeful and hungering for more

  Brian Keating, Professor of Physics UC San Diego, author of Losing the Nobel Prize

• Finally, it’s here: a book about Silicon Valley as seen through the accomplishments of the powerful women who, against all odds, made their mark there. Alpha Girls offers an inside look at the true meaning of grit and drive and upends the myth that it is only men who create and build tech companies. For any young woman in search of a role model, or any young man too, Alpha Girls is a must read

  Caroline Paul, author of The Gutsy Girl

• Alpha Girls is about four women in a high-stakes, high-drama world. Each of these women’s stories is gripping, treacherous and heroic. They are being pulled out from behind the gender curtain and given their rightful place in contemporary history

  Cathy Schulman, President of Welle Entertainment, Academy Award winning producer, founder Women in Film

• Once I started reading Alpha Girls, I couldn’t put it down. The story of these VC women trailblazers must be told, and Julian tells it brilliantly. The book stimulates reflections on how we must accelerate changes in ourselves, at home, and in the workplace

  Judy Vredenburgh, president & CEO, Girls Inc.

• Swot up on how the women of Silicon Valley crushed it in the land of the ‘tech bros’

  Glamour

• Alpha Girls thrillingly follows the addictive stories of four incredible women who did things their own way and rewrote the code of a whole industry

  Emerald Street

• Through a series of meticulously detailed portraits . . . Guthrie writes a revisionist history of America’s second Gold Rush – one in which women are the protagonists and money-makers . . . Alpha Girls is crammed with details that bring events and situations alive . . . Underpinning it all is a tone of relentless optimism

  Financial Times