130: How to Break Into Tech Startups, Especially Women Entrepreneurs w/ Nathalie Molina Niño, BRAVA Investments [Espresso Shots]

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Nathalie Molina-Niño is all at once a technologist, coder, entrepreneur, and storyteller. As the CEO of BRAVA Investments, she combines her skills to manage a portfolio which bank-roles startups on the condition that they disproportionately benefit women. The daughter of Latin American immigrants, Nathalia admits to being a Columbian who doesn’t drink coffee, but nonetheless energetically answers Time4Coffee’s rapid fire Espresso Shots questions that Java Junkies interested in breaking into the technology or start-up fields need to know. Nathalie shares how she ended up on the technology track, including how she dropped out of engineering school to pioneer her own start-up when she was 20 years ago, and returned to school years later to study Theatre. Press play for all that and more, on this surprisingly decaffeinated Espresso Shots career conversation!

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE:

• How coding can actually move the dial in terms of social justice and politics
• Where you should look to hack your skills and how scholarships and grants are out there for internships
• What is the most important life skill that Nathalie looks for in the people she hires
• Why a graduate degree might not be the most effective way to be on the cutting edge of the tech startup world
• Why you should follow your strength and not your passion
• What Java Junkie should consider when choosing what they will study if they want to break into this field
• Why you need to be discerning about what career advice you take, and especially where that advice is coming from
• Why you should watch the documentary Code: Debugging the Gender Gap in Tech
• If you want to learn more about Nathalie’s current job, her career and her book: LEAPFROG: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs listen to T4C episode #60