If you’ve never heard of Marissa Mayer, one of Google’s senior executives (one of few women exectutives in tech), allow me to fill you in:

• According to Wikipedia, Mayer was born in 1975
• She graduated from  Stanford University
• She joined Google in 1999, when the company had under 20 employees (talk about the right place at the right time!)
• Mayer became the first female engineer hired by Google
• Over 10 years later, Marissa is a Google Executive with her official title being; Vice President of Location and Local Services, and is frequently the warm, public face of the tech Goliath

To me personally, this short synopsis is extremely inspiring.