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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

When is our society going to start treating nurses with the respect they're due? You know, a little context is that I've been working on hunger issues for 10 years in cooperation with the No Kid Hungry Campaign and several local leaders in that. So they came onto a lot of people's radars around the hurricane in Puerto Rico.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. And that would never get past an Ethics Review Board because you can't.

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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

At the time, he was advising the campaign while also serving as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Revolution, a DC-based VC firm created to fund startups led by diverse founders all over the country. I'm able to do my work from home effectively, and all the technology, everything works. I think it's a challenge, right?