She said in her decade and a half in Silicon Valley, she's watched female colleagues leave one-by-one.
Still, it is Al Gore who, according to half the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists I talk to, possesses the right stuff to be President.
What has changed in recent weeks are not the economics of high-skilled reform: elected leaders have always understood that 40% of Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. were started by immigrants or their kids and that half of Silicon Valley startups have immigrant founders in some years.
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This is typical Silicon Valley ambivalence, half macho half paranoid.
American vintners have cultivated pinot noir for a century, but only in the last decade have they discovered the best micro-climates for growing it: Oregon's Willamette Valley and a half-dozen California locations, including Carneros in southern Napa and Sonoma counties, and coastal regions near Santa Barbara.
The bay sits at the base of a gorse and hawthorn-laden cliff valley, with a half-moon of white sand looking out over the water.
Researchers at the Kauffman Foundation released a study late last year showing that from 2006 to 2012, one in four engineering and technology companies started in the U.S. had at least one foreign-born founder in Silicon Valley it was almost half of new companies.
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Lake Lugano is set in a valley of extraordinary beauty, half in Italy and half in Switzerland.
Surrounded by the Pioneer Mountains, Divide was nestled in a flat-backed valley sprinkled with sagebrush and half-burnt two-by-fours, a reminder of when people actually used to live here.
Across the valley, the outline of Half Dome was unmistakable.
Half the irrigated land in the Sao Francisco valley is the product of public investment.
For my last zapovednik evening, another ranger, Kolya Solovev, invited our half-a-dozen-strong geyser valley community to his cabin to dine on smoked salmon and watch a slideshow of polar bear and musk oxen, whose company Solovev enjoyed the year before when rangering at the Arctic zapovednik that protects all of Wrangel Island.
The Celtic Manor was accused of distancing itself from Newport in the 2010 Ryder Cup build-up, as it advertised itself as Usk Valley and being an hour and a half from London.
The city hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics, and is within minutes of the Wasatch Range with its four ski resorts, and just half an hour from the Park City and Deer Valley ski resorts.
If innovation is something akin to pooling the most amount of cash on the books (around a trillion and a half dollars in market cap), then yeah, Silicon Valley is the mecca.
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Tellme raised half a billion dollars from Jim Barksdale, Benchmark and all the smart Valley guys at the time.
The Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team, which is entirely publicly funded, covers the southern half of West Yorkshire.
When Napa Valley's PlumpJack Winery moved to screwcaps in 2000, owner Gordon Getty kept half of production in natural cork, largely to appease traditionalists.
Reports filed with the Federal Election Commission today show that Thiel, a Silicon Valley investor, made the additional contributions to the Endorse Liberty PAC in the first half of January.
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Then SunPower, the Silicon Valley solar panel manufacturer and power plant developer, said it would temporarily shut down half of its 12 photovoltaic production lines in the Philippines and lay off 900 workers.
After recuperating with sleep and espresso (every room has a Nespresso machine), the first stop was Wolgan Valley Resort in the Blue Mountains, a three hour drive away (including the last half hour on a spine rattling, studded dirt road).
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The engrossing half concerns the title character (Tamblyn), a sixteen-year-old girl in a Hudson Valley town who gives birth while on a ski trip.
During the first half of 20th century Detroit mattered to the U.S. and global economies in the way that Silicon Valley matters now.
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