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Coursera: Coursera’s Leaders Reflect on the Influence of Education on Women
In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8th, we sat down with Coursera’s own Daphne Koller and Lila Ibrahim (both mothers to two wonderful daughters) to talk about how education has changed their lives and contributed to their success in building an open culture here at Coursera, where nearly 45 percent of employees and 50 percent of our leadership team are women. Daphne is co-founder and president of Coursera and former computer science professor at Stanford University, TED speaker and TIME Magazine Most Influential Person. Lila is Chief Business Officer at Coursera and Strategic Advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Before joining Coursera in 2013, Lila had a distinguished 18-year career at Intel. She is also the co-founder of non-profit organization Team4Tech. See more from Lila in a recent piece in Forbes. COURSERA: Can you tell us a little bit about your family background? DAPHNE: I was born in Jerusalem, Israel. My father was a botanist and my m…