Brianna Wu

With my company, Giant Spacekat, I was very angry about the lack of games that portrayed women positively in the video game industry, so I launched my own studio, gave a lot of very talented women jobs, and we made some of the most awesome, empowering games in the business.

When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing.

For a hate group originally focused on video games, anger over a comedy movie for starring women might seem ridiculous. But at its core, Gamergate is about a toxic male sense of ownership over geek culture.

Any reasonable person can look at video games and see that we don't represent women well.

I think Gamergate is just a symptom of a disease: a $90 billion global industry that was built by men for men.

I still quite enjoy watching Fox News because I think it makes me think through my arguments and make sure I'm on the right side.

Gamergate should have been a time of reckoning for the gaming community, which had long been rife with sexism and misogyny. It wasn't.

There's a common misconception about running for office. People think it's dreadful, morally compromising work. But I've found the opposite is true. It made a better person and a better feminist. It forced me to take a hard look at my shortcomings.

Facebook, Apple, Tinder, Snapchat, and Google create our social realities - how we make friends, how we get jobs, and how mankind interacts. And the truth is, women don't truly have a seat at the table.

If you run a website where people can congregate, you have a moral responsibility to make sure that community is not harassed.

My mom bought a computer in the '80s to do accounting, and she was so smart at computers that we spent all our time with them. My childhood was sitting on the floor of her office and figuring out how to program with my mom.

GamerGate has had an almost indescribable toll on my family.