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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

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. Seven years later, they've trained about 5,000 students and created over 1,000 new technology jobs in Fresno. Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise.

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Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound.

Software By Rob

Makes Fresno Web Design look like something out of 37Signals. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. People can go to the app store, download it for free, and we’ll pay them a cut of the revenues. Check out the awesome background on Pepsi.com. 4 comments ↓ #1 NoahWho?