Tap into collective genius, w/Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code & Moms First
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
What happens when you tap into the collective genius of a diverse group?
Does the cross-pollination of ideas let you create something greater than the sum of its parts?
The real magic happens when you create a network of changemakers: people united by a common cause who will drive impact and innovation. Doing this will vastly improve your odds of forging groundbreaking solutions to the challenges you face.
Reshma Saujani did this when she founded Girls Who Code, which has supported thousands of young women and non-binary people to take up impactful roles in the tech industry and beyond. With her latest venture, Moms First, she's again deploying her skills as a master of impactful networking.
In this episode, Reshma reveals how she's built inclusive networks of collaborators to tackle intractable problems from unexpected angles and unlock massive opportunities.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now, |
| 0:07.8 | with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed. |
| 0:17.0 | We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time. |
| 0:24.7 | So search for rapid response in your podcast player |
| 0:28.0 | and subscribe to make sure you get all our episodes. |
| 0:31.2 | I'll see you on the other side. |
| 0:34.0 | It's not that people weren't queer back in the day, |
| 0:37.0 | it's that they had a high day. You had to pretend to be straight as many people unfortunately still have to do to your employer, to your family, to your friends, to your landlord, to everyone. |
| 0:57.0 | That's Eric Serveni, writer and historian of LGBT-plus politics. |
| 1:06.0 | His book, The Deviance War, The Homosexual versus the United States of America, |
| 1:11.0 | uncovers the story of astronomer Frank Camuni. |
| 1:15.0 | First and foremost, he was an astronomer. |
| 1:18.0 | He was a PhD astrophysicist from Harvard. |
| 1:22.0 | In the late 1950s, Frank was recruited by the Pentagon to help |
| 1:25.6 | build America's space program. He was well positioned to be one of the |
| 1:31.1 | founding fathers of the American Man Space Program. |
| 1:34.0 | But then his new employer discovered that Frank was gay. |
| 1:40.0 | Within weeks he was barred from ever working in the federal government for the rest of his life. |
| 1:47.0 | What happened to Frank was sadly all too common at the time, |
| 1:51.0 | but it's how Frank reacted to this injustice that made him stand out. |
| 1:57.1 | What makes Frank Kamny so special is that he was the first to really fight back. |
| 2:03.0 | He took his case all the way to the Supreme Court, |
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