As CEOs or board members, women are still underrepresented, and that gap is actually growing.

Not only do we need more women in the technology sector, we also clearly need to refocus energy on improving gender equality in the global economy.

If you look around Booking.com, it's a very gender-balanced company.

I think companies need to take more ownership over the gender gap themselves because if everybody does that, then overall, it will improve.

My dad died from cancer when I was 18, and my mom was in a really tough spot. So I wanted to try to help at home. I had started doing some technology consulting.

I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do - take care of the home, go to work - and, at the same time, spread their power through the power of the digital world.