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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. They are now operating in nine States.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

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Whether data come from our own analytics or an external source, we are can implement changes to the way we operate in a matter of hours. For example, as a lawyer if you are at private firm there are associates and there are partners. First, the hours of operation are all up to me. #17 Being an entrepreneur is a great equalizer.