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We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don't think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we're leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.

~Leila Janah

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The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries.

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The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant.

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I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity.

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Traditional charity is still fairly focused on how it makes donors feel as opposed to outcomes for people that need help.

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I think the way you build a company for the future has to include social impact; it has to be part of the fabric of your company. I think when you do that, you invariably end up with much better outcomes, even in the short-term.

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The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.

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The thing that the Internet does is it allows labor to move freely across borders in the way that capital does but, traditionally, labor cannot. So the Internet frees workers to be based anywhere and work for employers anywhere.

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I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them.

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Using the Internet to secure employment is as vital to a construction worker as it is to a software engineer.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businesswoman

Born: October 9th, 1982

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