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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. Sydney Gressel : My name is Sydney Gressel, and I'm a nurse at UCSF in the Benioff Children's Hospital in the pediatric emergency department. Ryan Sarver : My name is Ryan Sarver. I started getting these text messages like, is your husband's name, Ryan?

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

Earlier this week, Ron Klain was named President-Elect Biden's chief of staff. He was named President Obama's Ebola czar in 2014 and led a coordinated response to that disease, resulting in only 18 cases and 2 deaths in this country. We have to come to terms with the fact that this was a choice, as heartbreaking as it is to do so.