Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

Out of the Crisis #5 is a conversation with three people who pivoted their biotech company to help fight the coronavirus. They had just filed with the Food and Drug Administration in early March when, in a play for humor during a meeting, someone pondered aloud whether niclosamide might be an effective treatment for COVID-19.

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