a16z Podcast: Using Social Tools to Build Homes for Those Most in Need

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🗓️ 28 November 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Brett Hagler was on a trip to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake where he saw too many of those displaced by the natural disaster still living in tattered blue-tarp shelters. What struck Hagler was the need for more permanent housing that could not only...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland.
0:05.0	Brett Hagler was on a trip to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, where he saw too many of those displaced by the natural disaster, still living in tattered blue tarp shelters.
0:16.0	What struck Hagler was the need for more permanent housing that could not only offer much-needed safety for
0:21.8	families, but help foster the community that was split apart following the earthquake.
0:27.4	The nonprofit startup news story is Hagler's answer to that need.
0:32.6	Hagler joins this segment of the A16Z podcast, along with New Story co-founder Alexandria
0:38.0	Lafsey, to discuss the startup's social media powered approach to giving, and why even as a
0:44.4	nonprofit startup, they think and act like any other for-profit tech startup looking to make a mark.
0:51.4	Alexandria, Brett, welcome. Glad to be here.
0:54.2	Hi, Michael.
0:54.8	Thanks for having us.
0:55.6	New Story charity.
0:57.9	Why charity?
0:59.6	It sounds so charitable.
1:01.2	I thought, you know, we're in a world of nonprofits.
1:03.7	Why is this a charity?
1:05.6	Yeah.
1:05.9	So what we do is we crowd fund houses for families living in danger around the world.
1:13.2	And the name, new story, is really what we go by.
1:17.6	The charity piece is there to not confuse people because sometimes they'll think that, you know,
1:23.5	we are a for-profit organization because of the way our platform set up.
1:28.1	And so we had that in there just to make it simple.
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