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🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Computer skills aren't what's stopping people from breaking into the tech industry, says social entrepreneur Irma L. Olguin Jr. More often, the biggest hurdles are things like access to childcare, transportation and financial stability. In this visionary talk, Olguin Jr. introduces the work she's done to uplift and empower people in her community in Fresno, California -- and shows how it can be a model to elevate "underdog" communities across the world. After the talk, Corey speaks with Irma about her career, how she got started, and what she's doing next.
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0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
0:07.6 | Hey everyone, it's Quarry HM Ted's Business Curator and this is Ted Business. |
0:16.0 | I'm back to share another talk from 2021, one of my favorites and I have to tell you |
0:21.7 | it's super hard to choose. It's like choosing your favorite child. You're really not supposed to |
0:26.5 | do that. But this one's really special to me. Irma Oldwind Jr delivered this talk in August |
0:33.4 | of last year at our Monterey conference. It's about her journey from Fresno, California, |
0:38.8 | a region dominated by agriculture, to college, to the tech industry, back to Fresno and what that |
0:46.8 | journey did for her and ultimately for her hometown. I don't want to give too much of it away, |
0:53.2 | so give it a listen and then stick around. After the talk there is even more talking, |
0:58.7 | but this time it's a conversation between Irma and myself about her experience as an entrepreneur. |
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