Ann Winblad, who will be honored on Oct. 23 by Silicon Valley's VC Taskforce, says women have come a long way in venture capital and tech since she started in the 1970s and 1980s.
In a conversation about being this year's Innovation Catalyst Award winner, Winblad recalled a tech conference in the early days. The organizers told her that since she was the only woman speaker they were putting her up with one of the entertainers—who turned out to be a stripper.
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