Sarah Maria Austin (b. January 1986) is an American author, tech entrepreneur, and Internet personality. She is the CMO and co-founder of metaverse funding platform, QGlobe, and former CEO at Broad Listening, an artificial emotional intelligence agent. She is the chairperson of the board of directors at Coding FTW, a nonprofit organization that promotes diversity and equal rights in the technology sector. Early life and education As a young child, Austin moved with parents from Rogers, Arkansas to Tiburon, California. In the ninth grade, Austin joined a leadership development and mentorship program called Summer Search. While in Summer Search, she studied New Media at Stanford University and also attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. In 2004, she graduated from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California. Upon returning to California, Austin attended film and broadcast classes at San Francisco State University. later to relocate to Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. In 2010, she was a Dominican University of California business management student. Career Entrepreneurship Austin is the founder of Coding FTW, a non-profit organization that provides scholarships for women in computer programming and technology. Austin was the first marketing hire at Kava, a decentralized finance platform, serving as its CMO. She held roles in content marketing at SAP, Oracle, and Ford Motor including its campaigns around the Consumer Electronics Show and the US launch of the Ford Fiesta. Media Austin began her career as a tech-news producer and DJ for three years at UC Berkeley’s radio station, KALX. She moved into video with news segments for D7TV's Story Today and created her own D7TV series, Party Crashers, in which she filmed Silicon Valley parties. During the spring of 2007, she was chosen as a participant in the closed beta test of Justin.tv and lifecasted for them. Pop17 After extensive tests through the winter of 2007-08 under the name PopSnap, Austin launched a web series and blog called Pop17 in March 2008. Pop17 features interviews with tech-oriented business owners and Internet personalities at tech-related events and parties. It also includes commentary and news on technology and business topics; Rocketboom and Mekanism contributed to the production of the show in 2008 and 2010. Contributors to Pop17 include Jesse Draper and Caitlin Hill. Start-Ups: Silicon Valley Austin was featured as one of the main cast members on Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, a reality TV show that aired on Bravo,