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Ep. 33 - Detroit Water Project (Tiffani Bell)

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Tech News, Technology

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

When developer Tiffani Bell first heard about the water crisis in Detroit she rolled up her developer sleeves and put up a page to help people who’s water had been shut off. Now, that page has turned into a non-profit, and she’s the executive director.

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So I love hearing stories about people who use technology for good.

0:53.8

And today, I am so excited to have on the show Tiffany Bell. She is a programmer and the executive director of the Detroit Water Project. Tiffany, you want to say hi? Hello. So I'm so excited to have you because I've been, I think I reached out to you about getting on the show a couple months ago.

1:11.6

And I think that at that point, you had not yet been accepted into Y Combinator for the Detroit Water Project.

1:18.8

Is that correct?

1:20.4

Actually, so we were accepted for YC back in November.

1:25.5

And so I think we had been accepted by then.

1:27.4

I just hadn't announced it. You had announced it. So it was like, it was, you know, undercover. It was kind of top secret at that point. Right. So now that you've been through that journey and you've done Detroit Water Project and it's this, you know, this whole thing, I'm even more excited because I get to talk to you about

1:45.1

all the stuff that I wanted to talk to you about a couple months ago but now you're doing even more

1:49.3

incredible stuff so we have lots to get through is my point are you ready I am and we do

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