Limor Fried, aka ladyada, is an American electrical engineer and owner of the electronics hobbyist company, Adafruit Industries. She is influential in the open-source hardware community, having participated in the first Open Source Hardware Summit and the drafting of the Open Source Hardware definition.
Entrepreneur magazine named Fried “Entrepreneur of the Year” in its January 2013 issue. In 2012 Limor was the only female finalist against 14 other male finalist entrepreneurs. In an interview with Cnet, Fried said, ”If there’s one thing I’d like to see from this — it would be for some kid say to themselves ‘I could do that’ and start the journey to becoming an engineer and entrepreneur.“
Limor Fried, aka ladyada, is an American electrical engineer and owner of the electronics hobbyist company, Adafruit Industries. She is influential in the open-source hardware community, having participated in the first Open Source Hardware Summit and the drafting of the Open Source Hardware definition.
Entrepreneur magazine named Fried “Entrepreneur of the Year” in its January 2013 issue. In 2012 Limor was the only female finalist against 14 other male finalist entrepreneurs. In an interview with Cnet, Fried said, ”If there’s one thing I’d like to see from this — it would be for some kid say to themselves ‘I could do that’ and start the journey to becoming an engineer and entrepreneur.“