Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2016

I tell people I’m interviewing that we’re a place where you can make a global difference by impacting the world’s most significant issues: energy, water, war, poverty. For me, the best part of running a business, especially a global one, is the sheer breadth of activities and decisions that make up any given day or week.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We were bootstrapping the company’s funding, so we could not afford to hire a firm to help us come up with a company name. GMR stands for “Global Marketing Resources.” After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, I went to Haiti as part of a relief team. He hired my new firm to get more media attention.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We set up a bunch of global surveillance systems like one called PREDICT that was supposed to find these diseases early on. So President Obama set up that office after I departed, put someone named Beth Cameron in charge of that office, a real global health expert. We created a pandemic response playbook that we wrote in 2015, in 2016.

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