African e-commerce giant Jumia announces co-founders Jeremy Hodara and Sacha Poignonnec have stepped down as co-CEOs, replaced by executive Francis Dufay
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Tweets by 8VC's Joe Lonsdale about “woke” tech diversity prompt swift criticism from tech investors as he attempts to recontextualize his earlier statements
Last week, in response to someone who tweeted that VCs were racist, venture capitalist and entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale … Tweets: @thevaluesvc , @ceonyc , @triketora , @brianbrackeen , @jtlonsdale , @jtl...
At least half a dozen startup founders from non-Western markets say YC's fully remote S20 Demo Day put them on a more equal footing with their US counterparts
Due the merchant connected nature of their business the founders didn't bother applying to YC having to operate on a different timezone than their customer. Virtual YC baited them. They applied. Got i...
Andela, which trains and places African programmers to work remotely for US companies, raises $100M Series D from Al Gore's Generation Investment Management
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Andela, which trains and places African programmers to work remotely for US companies, raises $100M Series D from Al Gore's Generation Investment Management
Outsourcing isn't generally seen as the most high-minded of industries. But when the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative …
Zuckerberg-backed Andela raises $40M to train African software developers and connect them with US tech firms
When Tolulope Komolafe first heard the pitch, she was skeptical. A fledgling company in Lagos, Nigeria, would pay her to learn how to write modern computer code and then offer her a good job in the h...