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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

35:20) Inspiring acts of leadership and working hard. (35:50) 35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30) I live in Oakland with my husband and now my dog. Some of it's communication. But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

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 Maybe we are talking about community servants or folks we previously thought were community servants. We can be deliberate about these things.

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