This morning an exciting article was published in the BBC News that profiles Mitchell Baker and her role as one of the most influential women leaders in Silicon Valley. Valley Girls: Mitchell Baker looks at the history of the Mozilla Project and Mitchell’s role in founding and shaping its success.

She reflects on the start of her role at Mozilla. “At that point I knew that the building of the browser was a necessary step to have an internet that was worth living in,” she said. “I also knew [Mozilla] was not the obvious path to build a career but it was the obvious path to do something interesting.”