Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. How was VisionSpring named? billion people worldwide who need them. . That’s how VisionSpring was born.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. How was VisionSpring named? billion people worldwide who need them. . That’s how VisionSpring was born.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 16, 2015

Bonus points for the fact that they partner with the social enterprise Vision Spring to facilitate training for optometrists and eye glass manufacturers in the same countries that they donate glasses to (India, Guatemala, and Bangladesh to name a few), so the communities also receive opportunities for sustainable income.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. Not their own name, or any other identifying information.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. Not their own name, or any other identifying information.

Silicon Valley 120

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

His name is Tomas Pueyo. So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. I talk with people in Kenya, in Peru, in Mexico and in Bangladesh, and it is just so hard. He was not a famous author. He wasn't a media star. He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley.

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