A moving memoir from a female who made a lot of money within a man’s world and then gave it all away…soon to be converted into a film

In 1962, Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley created a software company when the idea of software barely existed. Freelance Programmers employed women to work on complex projects such as for example Concorde’s black box recorder from your comfort and ease of their own home.

Shirley empowered a era of women in technology, providing them with unheard of independence to select their own hours and manage approximately Let It Go: My Extraordinary Tale – From Refugee to Business owner to Philanthropist their own workloads. The business thrived and Shirley gradually transferred possession to her personnel, creating 70 millionaires along the way.

IGNORE IT explores Shirley’s trail blazing career as an entrepreneur but it addittionally graphs her incredible personal story – her dramatic arrival in England mainly because an unaccompanied Kindertransport refugee during Globe War Two and the tragic loss of her only child who suffered severely from Autism.

Today, Dame Stephanie Shirley is certainly one of Britain’s leading philanthropists, devoting the majority of her time, energy and prosperity to charities that are near her center. In IGNORE IT, Shirley tells her inspirational story and points out why giving her wealth away – allowing it to go – has brought her infinitely even more happiness and fulfilment than acquiring it in the first place.

Co-written with Richard Askwith, the former Executive Editor of The Independent and the award-winning author of seven books in his own name, including biographies of Emil Zátopek and Lata Brandisová.

‘An extraordinary story of creativeness and resilience’ – Guardian

‘This engrossing tale of a fantastic life is filled up with lessons in what it means to become human’ – Financial Times