Brianna Wu

Sometimes I speak out on women in tech issues. ”

Even when the nation's leaders acknowledge tech issues, details are lacking. ”

The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That's fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics. ”

The tech industry has a strong bias towards technical solutions to social problems. ”

In politics, I am facing a lot of structural sexism. ”

It doesn't matter how many women we get into game production. If the only people evaluating the work we do continue to be men, women's voices will never be heard. ”

In 1999, I was running my first tech start-up and learning the Unreal Engine, the tool that would define my career as a game developer, when news of Columbine ground all work to a standstill. ”

The truth is, the game industry is a really incredibly difficult place for women to work. ”

To stand up to GamerGate, that's my choice. I can't make that choice for the women I work with. ”

The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn't work. ”