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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.

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Austin’s opportunity to change America’s entrepreneurial narrative

Austin Startup

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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“We are one of just 13 industrialized countries with a rising maternal mortality rate” – Christy Turlington Burns on Fighting for Healthy Mothers

Hunter Walker

Christy doing work in Haiti Hunter Walk: Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit focused on supporting maternal health. Did you feel connected to Silicon Valley back then? I grew up in the East Bay but left for NYC in 1987 and Silicon Valley was just starting to percolate.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 9: Jered Lawson and Chase Adam

Steve Blank

He also worked in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica and helped start a national health program in Haiti. Steve : You also supply food to some companies now in Silicon Valley, right? Steve : You’re apart from Silicon Valley but you’re connected as well. We didn’t know anyone in Silicon Valley.

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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

If you go back to what he did in Puerto Rico after the hurricane, if you go back to what he did in Haiti and other places, what he did is exactly what you're saying, which is he found ways to feed people so effectively, so efficiently that they are now the standards that the government increasingly uses when it responds to a humanitarian crisis.