“I never decided to be a founder. I just tried to solve problems,” Vanessa Hurst, a social entrepreneur, told the audience at the recent Tom Tom Founders Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia. What put Hurst on a path to become a serial entrepreneur was her desire to tackle a big problem in tech—the lack of diversity. After graduating from the University of Virginia with a B.S. in computer science, Hurst moved to New York City, where she worked as a software developer. As a woman, she wanted to empower other women to break into the male-dominated tech industry.