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From Haitian Roots to a Silicon Valley Address: How Bianca St.Louis Is Building Her Rep & a Career in Tech

Hunter Walker

” Did you always know you wanted to move to Silicon Valley and work in tech? My parents were immigrants from Haiti who didn’t grow up with access to computers in their homes and consistent electricity so there was only so much they could share with me about tech. Company culture is improving somewhat.

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Austin’s opportunity to change America’s entrepreneurial narrative

Austin Startup

In fact, according to Austin Inno , the percentage of African Americans in Austin has decreased as the flow of predominately white tech workers has helped fuel the growth of the tech sector and driven up the cost of living. In 1991, ten-year-old Jerry and his family escaped civil war in Haiti and resettled in America as refugees.

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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

Not only is that approach going to cost lives. positive for, obviously, health care, but also positive for the economy in all kinds of ways, and paid a huge political price for that in 2010 because the benefits weren't really baked in by that stage in time, and the costs were very apparent. Let's reopen as quickly as possible.