My interview lasted ~ 1 hour. The parts that made it lasted 4 minutes. I don't remember specifically if I did or didn't uplift specific orgs, but I'm sure I spoke about the CS community at large because I regularly do.
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Negative. Any founder (for profit or non-profit) will tell you that hyper growth/scale is a derivative of resources. You’re being disingenuous to claim otherwise. And I say this as a founder whose org has had more demand than we could meet since day one.
so there’s that...Our story may be an exception. Our launch video (which was personally funded by me and my brother on a shoestring budget) had 10M views, ~1M petition signatures, ~20,000 teacher signups, before we had a single employee or outside funding.
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Well while you most certainly utilized the obvious power of social media to your advantage on that viral campaign
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Yet such exposure certainly helped you tell your story and thus rally a bevy of support to drive your mission through both tangible and non-tangible resource augmentation.
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That said, I didn't contest we had resources - my own time/connections are resources. We started with that, built an audience, then got funding. It is a virtuous cycle. Teachers and students don't choose
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Teachers. You use educators as a shield to discussion of issues and that’s unfortunate Hadi. Every single founder and org doing this work has community. Yours are teachers. Mine? Legions of Black/brown and other techies who want a more diverse tech community.
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