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You and Yours: Gap Finders: Anna Brailsford from Code First: Girls

Gap Finders: Anna Brailsford from Code First: Girls

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Gap Finders: Anna Brailsford from Code First: Girls

The woman on a mission to close the gender gap in tech.

This week's Gap Finder is Anna Brailsford, the chief executive and co-founder of Code First: Girls.

Code First: Girls provides free coding courses for women. It's already trained over 140,000 women to code and is now on a mission to train one million in the next five years. Leading that mission is CEO and co-founder Anna Brailsford. 

Anna grew up in Liverpool in the 1980s. At the age of ten, she made a deal with herself to step out of her comfort zone at least once every day 'just to see what happens'. Since then, she has worked for her family business, co-founded her own companies and was commercial director at the online learning platform Lynda.com when it was bought by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion in 2015.

Code First: Girls was created in 2012 by entrepreneurs Alice Bentnick and Matt Clifford, but it wasn't until Anna came on board in 2019, that it became the company it is today.

In this edition of Gap Finders, Anna talks to Shari about the gap she spotted, and how it enabled her to transform Code First: Girls from a social enterprise, into a rapidly accelerating profit-making business with the potential to tackle inequality in the tech industry.

PRESENTER: SHARI VAHL
PRODUCER: JAMES LEESLEY

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