Aminatou Sow is a United States-based businesswoman, digital strategist, writer, podcast host, interviewer, and cultural commentator. She is the co-founder of Tech LadyMafia and she co-hosted the podcast Call Your Girlfriend with her friend, the journalist and editor Ann Friedman. Together, they also wrote the best-selling book Big Friendship. Sow was named to Forbes 30 under 30 in Tech in 2014.
Sow was born in Guinea on April 8, 1985 to a diplomat father and engineer mother. Because of her father's job, the family moved often and Sow grew up in Nigeria, Belgium, and France. She speaks five languages. Sow moved the United States at the age of 19 to attend the University of Texas at Austin, where she received her BA in government in 2007.
