Meet The Bay Area Women On Forbes Magazine's 'World's 100 Most Powerful Women' List
They hold the keys to the kingdom. These Bay Area women are among the World's 100 Most Powerful Women, according to Forbes Magazine. The are extremely well-paid and extremely well-educated. The technology sector dominates, but there are women in finance, politics, law, and healthcare, as well. Most are in their 50s, but there is a 31-year-old on this list who is the world's youngest self-made billionaire.
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#8 Sheryl Sandberg, 45
COO of Facebook
Sandberg lives in Atherton. She has a net worth of $1.05 billion.
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#9 Susan Wojcicki, 46
CEO, YouTube, Google
Wojcicki lives in Palo Alto. She has a net worth of $300 million.
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#22 Marissa Mayer, 39
CEO of Yahoo
Meyer lives in Palo Alto. She had a pay package of $42 million in 2014.
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#24 Safra Catz, 53
Co-CEO of Oracle
Catz lives in Redwood City. She earned nearly $38 million in 2014.
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#25 Angela Ahrendts, 54
SVP, Retail for Apple
Ahrendts lives in Cupertino. She earned $73.4 million in 2014.
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#32 Ruth Porat, 57
CFO of Google
Porat grew up in Palo Alto and Portola Valley. She will earn an estimated $70 million in her first 2 years at Google.
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#38 Nancy Pelosi, 75
Minority Leader
House of Representatives
Pelosi lives in San Francisco. Since 1987, she has raised more than $400 million.
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#44 Laurene Powell Jobs, 51
Founder and Chair of Emerson Collective
Jobs is the widow of the late Steve Jobs. She lives in Palo Alto. She and her family have a net worth of $20.3 billion.
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#60 Katie Jacobs Stanton, 45
VP of Global Media
Twitter
Stanton lives in Los Altos. She is married with 3 children.
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#72 Elizabeth Holmes, 31
Founder-CEO of Theranos
Holmes lives in Palo Alto. She is the world's youngest self-made billionaire with a net worth of $4.6 billion.
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#77 Mary Meeker, 55
General Partner
Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Meeker lives in Woodside. She also made Forbes' Midas List of the top venture capitalists.
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#84 Padmasree Warrior, 54
Chief Technology & Strategy Officer
Cisco Systems
Born and raised in India, Warrior lives in San Jose.
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#95 Weili Dai, 53
President of Marvell Technology
Dai lives in Los Altos Hills. Her salary was $3.73 million in 2014.