Meet the Woman Who's Created the 21st Century Finance Model for Emerging Technologies -- The Internet of Women

Meet the Woman Who's Created the 21st Century Finance Model for Emerging Technologies Riva-Melissa Tez is the CEO and co-founder of Permutation in San Francisco. A London native, she runs an artificial intelligence platform and incubator. In her spare time, she works on The Longevity Cookbook, alongside Maria Konovalenko and Steve Aoki, which is a book that distills academic research into practical measures for slowing the aging process. This is an edited transcript of a recorded interview. I learned important lessons about money at a very early age. At 10, I moved into a homeless shelter after my father left my mother. My mother is severely schizophrenic -- which can be both chaotically fun and devastatingly traumatic -- and was not well enough to look after herself, let alone me at the time. Amongst other things, she used to make me drink the milk in the morning first to check if it had poison in it. A few years later, at 14, we moved into social housing.