The climate crisis is something many of us feel pretty anxious about and it's already hitting some of the world's poorest hardest

But practical action is a global development charity with 60 years of experience in tackling how to alleviate poverty for those on the front line of

Turbine change people like Pauline from Kenya

Drought has killed nearly all the animals that she and her husband have spent a lifetime looking after and the climate crisis

It doesn't just impact nature. It's decimated her income her savings and it's changing a wider community's way of life

But practical action believes that where there's action there's hope practical action have introduced solar-powered

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She now grows a number of different crops and sells them for enough profit to keep her children fed and in school

With your help practical action can do even more regenerating depleted land into productive farms

repurposing waste into energy and helping to overcome injustice for women and vulnerable groups

Please take action today and turn your hope for a better future into reality

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My guest today is Andrew Chen and we're here to discuss this new book the cold-start problem

Using network effects to scale your product it focuses on how some of the world's leading tech businesses grew from small startups

Into by words for success

Andrew is a general partner at Andrews and Horowitz the startup investor behind Twitter air B&B

Kid hub lift reddit and Skype

Among others and he writes a popular newsletter blog and much more

He was formally head of writer growth at Uber. He's a true Silicon Valley insider

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