Description

Dexter Ligot-Gordon is the Co-founder and CEO of Swarm, a community connecting founders with freelance tech builders. He was also the Co-founder of Kalibrr, the first Southeast Asian and Philippine startup accepted into the global startup accelerator Y Combinator. Before his career as a founder, he spent almost ten years in public service, helping Filipino-Americans break through the glass ceiling.

What motivated him to pursue a career in public policy for nearly a decade? What was it like to build a startup in the early days of the Philippine startup ecosystem? How did it all lead to Swarm?

Topics: 

• Who is Dexter Ligot-Gordon?
•  How his family impacted him and how he got involved in job matching opportunities
• Changing rules and creating opportunities
• Kalibrr as a game changer
• Fending off major tech companies
• From social studies educator to politician
• Becoming student regent at UC Berkeley
• Building programs for Filipino-American students
• Turning point: political career
• Moving back to Philippines
• Combining tech, entrepreneurship and strategy
• Alignment, ability to bring solutions to that affects people's lives
• Working at Swarm is about range of commitment
• The early days of Kalibrr and building a startup in the early days of the Philippine (and Southeast Asian) startup ecosystem
• Funding the business
• Creating a culture of learning and training team members
• What are the challenges and motivations as he builds a startup?
• Living in a hostel and the birth of Kalibrr
•  What he wants to achieve in his personal life

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