Women Who Reign: Kelsey Hrubes

Happy Monday Reigners! We are thrilled to highlight Kelsey Hrubes, who I met during the Sequoia’s Start @ a Startup Conference in NYC a few weeks ago. Instead of our typical format of answering questions Kelsey wanted to write about her journey. Her story is truly one of going down unchartered territory and making a complete transformation. This brought tears to my eyes…can’t wait to see all that Kelsey’s will accomplish!
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A few days ago, I was hidden away in a corner of the library, checking my email for the God-knows-how-many-ith time. A white, medium sized popup appeared on the page. It had an icon, a title, some subtext, and two buttons. Most people would briefly read the content and then close the popup, but I stared at it and smiled. I knew the exact in’s and out’s of how that popup worked; because I had implemented the framework for it a few months prior while interning for the Inbox team at Google.

How did this become my life? To be a Software Engineer and develop something millions of people would interact with, to experience the shiny Silicon Valley life that so many people dream about, blog about, drop out of school to be a part of? A majority of the people I talked to out there, from what I’ve gauged, come from a family full of engineers, who set sky high expectations for themselves. They…