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Out of the Crisis #15: Lenore Estrada on her SF New Deal, serving the hungry, and civic engagement

Startup Lessons Learned

"We knew that if we wanted immediate action, the only way to do that was with private money," Lenore Estrada explained to me as we talked about why she founded SF New Deal in the days after being forced to lay off most of the staff at her San Francisco bakery, Three Babes Bakeshop.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

The company expanded rapidly, growing from nine employees to 150 over the course of just five weeks. After looking at the diagnostic supply chain issues hampering existing test methods, they developed an oral swab test that returns results in 24 hours. creating a model for how other cities can do it. A full transcript is below.