The Many Side-Hustles of Sherrell Dorsey, ThePLUG and BLKTECHCLT
ThePLUG is the first daily tech newsletter covering founders and innovators of color. What do these people have in common: Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Larry Page, Tim Cook, and Larry Ellison? Yes, these are all icons of the tech industry. They also happen to be white men. Sherrell Dorsey of ThePLUG […]
Mobile Gaming for Social Good, with Elizabeth Sarquis, Global Gaming Initiative and Jukko
Global Gaming Initiative provides a suite of tools and services to make it easier for game developers and publishers to produce and monetize games for social good. Elizabeth Sarquis was born in a small town along the Magdalena River in Colombia. When Elizabeth was five years old, her family moved to the US. Growing up, […]
Making Technology Fun, Relevant, and Accessible for Girls, with Betty Gronneberg, uCodeGirl
uCodeGirl offers pathways to technology careers for teen girls by tapping into their curiosity, skills, and potential. Betty Gronneberg grew up in Ethiopia. She attended Addis Ababa University where she majored in statistics. Betty recalls a day in college when she saw her name on a list of students who had been accepted into the […]
Connecting Buyers and Suppliers of Aid Supplies, with Stephanie Cox, The Level Market
The Level Market is the premier marketplace for aid and relief supplies. Stephanie Cox grew up looking at National Geographic with her grandfather. “I knew I wanted to travel the world when I was 6, 7, 8 years old,” she explains. After graduating from college, she traveled the world as a freelance journalist. In 2004, […]
Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Humanitarian Missions, with Lori Most, BinaryBridge
BinaryBridge creates software that helps humanitarians do their work effectively and efficiently. Lori Most grew up seeing television commercials of humanitarian crises, especially in Africa. Lori recounted, “I always wanted to go to Africa and help…I thought ‘I’m going to grow up and go over there.” In college, she started as a pre-med student. Partway […]
Improving the Health of People and Companies, with Zach McGill, Perk Health
Perk Health helps you pick up healthier habits in a way that is sustainable. Zach McGill and Doug DeBold grew up playing sports. Games taught them so much: achievement, competition, leader boards, point scoring, rewards, rules of play, self-expression, socializing, mastery, and status. When it was time for college, Doug went off to college in […]
What I Learned about Social Entrepreneur from Mechanical Turk
As Social Entrepreneur passes it’s 50th episode, I want to know what people really think about it. The podcast, Social Entrepreneur has received its fair share of praise. It has been simultaneously ranked the #1 podcast in four iTunes New & Noteworthy categories. That’s an amazing accomplishment. We have well over 100 reviews on iTunes, 99.9% of […]
Pedro Domingos, Author of “Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Society”
If you want to talk about machine learning, Pedro Domigos is a good person to start with. When Pedro was growing up in Lisbon, he loved to read and to learn. In fact, when he was 13 years old, he decided that he wanted to learn everything that there is to know. It did not […]