From punch cards to prototypes: three women at Xero on building, being backed, and backing the next…

From punch cards to prototypes: three women at Xero on building, being backed, and backing the next generation For Ada Lovelace Day, we spoke with Madhu Gupta, Mehika Manocha, and Breana McHugh about the women who paved the way, and what they’d pass on as AI changes who gets to build Madhu Gupta still remembers sorting through old punch cards as a child. She remembers being in the computer lab as her mother programmed. Her mother would hit submit, and the machine would spit out the punch cards that held her program.