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How I Built This with Guy Raz

Meet The HIBT Fellows: Pierre Paul & Toby Egbuna

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.831.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As a part of the 2021 How I Built This Summit (At Home) we have selected 10 Fellows, and we'd like to introduce you to them over the next couple weeks. In this episode: Pierre Paul, founder of a company called We Hear You that's developing a sign language translator that turns American Sign Language into audible speech and vice versa. Also, Toby Egbuna, co-founder of Chezie, a platform for job seekers aimed at creating career opportunities for people from under-represented groups.

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0:09.0

When you leave home, can you ever really go back?

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Made a version!

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Soccer legend Leo Messi and I both left Argentina as kids.

0:17.0

You know you're that piece of a puzzle that doesn't fit anywhere.

0:20.0

To so many immigrants, football is a way to reconnect.

0:23.0

Listen to the last cop in the embedded podcast feed

0:26.0

to hear the latest collaboration from MPR and Fuduro Studios.

0:32.0

Hey everyone, so as a lot of you know, every year during normal years,

0:37.0

we do how I built this summit, an in-real life gathering that we've been doing in San Francisco.

0:43.0

This year, we're going entirely virtual, but every year we've done the summit,

0:47.0

we've invited a group of entrepreneurs to become how I built this fellows.

0:51.0

These are dreamers and builders that may be in all different stages of their businesses

0:56.0

and are looking to make connections or get mentorship or take their ideas to the next level.

1:02.0

This year, we picked 10 fellows and we're holding a pitch competition

1:07.0

where the winner will get a $50,000 check from us, a grant.

1:13.0

So over the next two weeks, we are going to introduce you to each of these fellows.

1:18.0

One of the questions we ask when we're looking for fellows is,

1:22.0

how is your idea going to make the world a better place?

1:26.0

And the first two fellows we'd like for you to meet are focused on inclusion.

1:31.0

For them, embracing the experiences of people who've been overlooked in the past

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