Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In 1991, ten-year-old Jerry and his family escaped civil war in Haiti and resettled in America as refugees. And in response, our entrepreneurial, the Silicon Valley-style economy is putting $120 million into companies that are making $500 do-it-yourself cold-pressed juicers rather than respond to these pressing problems.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 2, 2017

Christy doing work in Haiti Hunter Walk: Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit focused on supporting maternal health. CTB: I became aware of the global problem after giving birth in the US and experiencing a childbirth complication personally in 2003. Did you feel connected to Silicon Valley back then?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

He also worked in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica and helped start a national health program in Haiti. These kinds of direct relationships are … lost in our anonymous market place of the global food system. … Steve : You also supply food to some companies now in Silicon Valley, right? If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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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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