S4 Bonus: Richard Mensah, EllisX

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🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Originally from Ghana, Richard Mensah was born into an IT family. From an early age, Richard was the one fixing all of the family tech problems. He could see the potential in technology, to help aid in solving the problems his community was experiencing in Ghana. He loves his country, but he also realized that the US has more resources for innovation than his home country. He is a huge music fan - and is a guitar player and singer. He sees the correlation between tech and music, and describes them both as understanding the rules but being able to bend them in your own way to make a product, service, or song. He also loves to dance. In fact, he recently tried to learn Salsa, which he mentions didn't go super great. Previously, he founded a few startups and one thing he found was it was hard to scale startups past early adopters. When he met his co-founder, they immediately saw a gap in connecting startups, startup ideas and those that are looking for interesting stories. They decided to build a better way to do this. This is the creation story of EllisX. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	The idea for technology is how do you use technology, create an impact, how do you change lives using technology?
0:06.7	And it's just the impact that the lives that will be changed if this is killed to like the next million people on the platform and next billion.
0:14.7	What does that look like? Ultimately, what we'll be doing is how do we create a new way for companies to get noticed?
0:20.5	Because it's really, really hard for companies to get noticed right now.
0:23.9	We want to build a company that is the preferred platform or the preferred place for companies
0:28.5	to come to get noticed in a more authentic fashion.
0:31.9	Our approach to the problem is how do we reduce all the noise and how do we increase the signal
0:36.7	when it comes to helping people connect to the right people.
0:39.9	My name is Richard Mansa, co-founder at LSX.
0:47.9	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noah Laparte, and today how Richard Minza created a new connection point for the startup storytellers and the media.
1:13.6	All this and more on Code Story.
1:20.6	Originally from Ghana, Richard Mincea was born into an IT family.
1:25.6	From an early age, Richard was the one fixing all of the family
1:28.3	tech problems. He could see the potential in technology to help aid in solving the problems
1:33.9	his community was experiencing in Ghana. He loves his country, but he also realized that the
1:39.4	U.S. has more resources for innovation than his home country. So we headed over here for school.
1:45.6	He is a huge music fan, a guitar player and a singer. He sees the correlation between tech and
1:51.7	music and describes them both as understanding the rules, but being able to bend them in your own
1:57.0	way to make a product, service, or song. He also loves to dance. In fact, he recently
2:02.6	tried to learn salsa, which he mentioned didn't go super great. Previously, he founded a few
2:08.3	startups in Ghana, and one thing he found was it was hard to scale startups past early adopters.
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