Randi Zuckerberg bats for more women to participate in Web3, crypto

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Randi Zuckerberg, a former early employee at Facebook and a sister of Meta Platforms founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, is always at the frontlines of new technologies. At Karnataka's Global Investors Meet (GIM), Zuckerberg also showcased her creative talent when she briefly sang the song "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" recorded by American rock singer Pat Benatar in 1980. As an early adopter of Web2 and the creator of Facebook Live, Zuckerberg is also very vocal about the opportunities women should get to participate in developing emerging technologies such as cryptocurrency, blockchain, and Web3.

“I'm very encouraged to see so many incredible women in business here,” said Zuckerberg, founder, and CEO of Zuckerberg Media, while addressing industry leaders, investors, startups, and government officials at GIM. “What I like to think about is not only how women can catch up in existing fields, but also how we get more women on the frontlines of emerging fields.”

Zuckerberg said she spent a decade in Silicon Valley and was very nearly the only woman in every room that she was in. She said if women miss out on participating in the early stages of emerging fields, 10 years later, the industry is going to witness the same conversation of having fewer women in technology.

“We have to make sure that women aren't left behind and are not playing catch up again in the future,” said Zuckerberg. “Recently I have grown very excited about Web3 and again I found myself in yet another iteration of the Internet where there were no women in the room.

Zuckerberg said she is not aware of the total investment that women-led ventures attract in India, but that number is very bleak in the U.S. Less than 2 per cent of investing capital