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1 day ago · Many female founders came out to say that they don’t have the same permission to be in founder mode the way men do, and that it often leads to a double standard. Graham's idea that founders should remain “in the weeds” is a method that may earn male founders praise, but when female founders take the same approach, they face criticism and ...
4 days ago · She became the first woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Three years later her son Donald E. Graham was appointed the paper’s executive vice president and general manager; he succeeded her as publisher in 1979.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She was one of the first 20th-century female publishers of a major American newspaper and the first woman elected to the board of the Associated Press.
1 day ago · It wasn’t until 1972 that women in the U.S. could run their own businesses. That year, there were over 400,000 women entrepreneurs. In 2022, over 13 million businesses have been founded and are ...
13 hours ago · Less than two decades later, she launched a business at a time when women weren’t allowed to work in the London Stock Exchange, drive a bus or fly a plane. They also needed their husband’s written permission to open a bank account. Before starting her business, one of her first jobs was at the Post Office research station in Dollis Hill.
3 days ago · She worked under 26 bosses. And she ended her tenure as AT&T Business’ first female CEO, which also made her the company’s first internal female CEO of color.
5 days ago · Graham wrote in his essay, “There are as far as I know no books specifically about founder mode. Business schools don’t know it exists … But now that we know what we’re looking for, we can ...
