Katie Jacobs Stanton, VP, Global Media, Twitter
As if raising 3 kids isn’t demanding enough, Stanton was a special advisor to the White House’s Office of Innovation before heading one of Twitter’s largest departments. One of Forbes’ 100 most powerful women in the world, she has been working with the popular microblogging site since 2010.
On Parenting
In an interview with NPR news, Stanton recounted an incident that had happened when she got home from work, "We've had a really intense week at Twitter, which is great and it's sterling, but it's meant that I've come home from work late every night. And last night, I got back. And my daughter said, well, mom, I owe three dozen cookies, homemade - and they have to be homemade. And we need to bring them in tomorrow.
And it was about 8:30 p.m. I thought, oh, my God. I felt so bad. And, you know, there's nothing that a quick batch of Toll House can't solve. So that seemed to work out OK. So you have to take, you know, each day in stride and enjoy what you have."