A biography for Bozoma Saint Johnhasn’t been written yet.
“If you are in a hiring position, hire someone that is nothing like you. We keep looking for the commonalities, but find someone with commonalities that are nothing like you.”
“Risk is the essence of any reward - to try the thing that no one else is willing to try.”
“I don't even know how to behave without my sleep. I would be a horrible person to be around - cranky.”
“I'm living out my dreams every day.”
“We should all be allies to ideas or people or initiatives that we don't necessarily have a real knowledge in.”
“Because my husband, Peter, died young, I've already faced the scariest thing in my life. Now I live out the dreams for both of us.”
“When I was growing up, the brands that were most powerful were people brands, like Michael Jackson or Madonna. They stood for something that, perhaps, wasn't wholly who they were, which then became an image that they sold. That's still a brand to me.”
“Live today as if you don't have tomorrow: my husband was diagnosed and killed by cancer within six months.”
“I think it's interesting how you can associate a creative brand with a human being and use some of the good qualities of the human being and make it like a really tangible product that a lot of people can love.”
“Pop culture and entertainment can be dismissed as surface, but it's not. It's the language we all speak, and it's the connection point between people all over the world.”
“I want to hear LeBron James's Uber stories.”
“When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.”
“It's important to be an ally. You don't have to be a black woman to think we should have more black women in tech.”
“I don't have to be an engineer to understand we need female engineers.”
“I want to be something that is worthy to be bragged about.”
“I don't fear challenge.”
“We have to find ways to create content that folks want to see.”
“I think a lot of women have felt really powerless.”
“I've never made a move that I didn't feel was right in my gut.”
“Even now, when people ask me, 'Why did you take the job at Uber?' I say because my gut told me to.”