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Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Business & Economics, Business & Career DevelopmentClosing the Equity Gap: Creating Wealth and Fostering Justice in Startup Investing by Mitchell Kapor, Freada Kapor KleinPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612787 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Closing the Equity Gap: Creating Wealth and Fostering Justice in Startup Investing Author: Mitchell Kapor, Freada Kapor Klein Narrator: Keyonni James Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Business & Career Development Publisher's Summary: A social activist and an entrepreneur remake the future of investing and business, offering a win-win road map for creating wealth and addressing inequalities by investing in groundbreaking tech companies that defy assumptions from Silicon Valley to Wall Street. Companies backed by venture capital drive the U.S. economy, accounting for hundreds...2023-03-1405 min
Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Business & Economics, Business & Career DevelopmentClosing the Equity Gap: Creating Wealth and Fostering Justice in Startup Investing by Mitchell Kapor, Freada Kapor KleinPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612787to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Closing the Equity Gap: Creating Wealth and Fostering Justice in Startup Investing
Author: Mitchell Kapor, Freada Kapor Klein
Narrator: Keyonni James
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Release date: March 14, 2023
Genres: Business & Career Development
Publisher's Summary:
A social activist and an entrepreneur remake the future of investing and business, offering a win-win road map for creating wealth and addressing inequalities by investing in groundbreaking tech companies that defy assumptions from Silicon Valley to Wall Street. Companies backed by venture capital drive the U.S. economy, accounting for hundreds of...2023-03-149h 12
Singularity.FMMelanie Mitchell on AI: Intelligence is a Complex PhenomenonMelanie Mitchell is the Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, and Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University. Prof. Mitchell is the author of a number of interesting books such as Complexity: A Guided Tour and Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. One interesting detail of her academic bio is that Douglas Hofstadter was her Ph.D. supervisor.
During this 90 min interview with Melanie Mitchell, we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: how she started in physics, went into math, and ended up in Computer Science; how Douglas Hofstadter became her Ph.D...2020-09-211h 48
American EnoughAutomation and the Future of Work in AmericaNew forms of work, through apps like Uber, and new forms of automation — are sparking both new opportunities and considerable angst among American workers.
CEO & Co-Founder of The Workers Lab, Dr. Carmen Rojas, joins the pod to discuss how to build a 21st century set of organizing principles around preparing and protecting workers, while balancing the innovations that are fueling this century’s growth.
Dr. Carmen Rojas is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Workers Lab, an innovation lab that invests in entrepreneurs, community organizers, and government leaders to create replicable and revenue gener...2018-11-1959 min
Access and OpportunityAddressing Silicon Valley's "Leaky Tech Pipeline"“Most people in the Silicon Valley tech ecosystem… believe that institutions are meritocracies,” says Freada Kapor Klein, a founding partner of Kapor Capital. “If you believe that self-serving nonsense then you believe that if there's no diversity in your circles, it's because whoever's outside isn't good enough, and it's an incredibly dangerous and inaccurate belief system.” In the season 1 finale of the Access & Opportunity podcast, Carla Harris talks to Kapor Klein about how her Oakland-based venture capital firm, which she co-founded with her husband, the computer visionary Mitchell Kapor, is breaking down the investment barriers for startups run by wome...2018-09-0629 min
KPFA - Making ContactMaking Contact – Native Harvest for a Modern World (ENCORE)For centuries, the Taos Pueblo people in New Mexico lived entirely off their land. Sustainable agriculture was a way of life, but U.S. federal policies helped put an end to that. Food wasn’t grown at the pueblos; it was trucked in. Traditional farming gave way to government subsidies and obesity rates soared. But recently, a surprising agricultural renaissance has taken root across the pueblos. On this edition, Making Contact’s Rita Daniels takes us to the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico to share a story of rebirth and renewal.
This program was partially funded by the...2012-11-2304 min
Tides Podcast (audio/video)Beyond Politics: Navigating a New Reality (2011) (audio)Ellen Nissenbaum and Samuel S. Kang discuss how the U.S. budget deal impacts nonprofits. Tides Learning Community presents this teleconference briefing series in partnership with The Greenlining Institute, Mitchell Kapor Foundation, Northern California Grantmakers, and the National Committee for Responsive philanthropy.2011-10-0550 minKPFA - Making ContactMaking Contact – Native Harvest for a Modern WorldFor centuries, the Taos Pueblo people in New Mexico lived entirely off their land. Sustainable agriculture was a way of life, but U.S. federal policies helped put an end to that. Food wasn’t grown at the pueblos; it was trucked in. Traditional farming gave way to government subsidies and obesity rates soared. But recently, a surprising agricultural renaissance has taken root across the pueblos. On this edition, Making Contact’s Rita Daniels takes us to the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico to share a story of rebirth and renewal. This program was partially funded by the Ben and J...2009-11-2704 min
CarnegieViewsAkili Lee: How to Leverage Social Network Tools for LearningEducators, content developers, policy makers and investors gathered to determine how they could collaborate to create engaging learning-oriented content that would teach 21st century skills.
Sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Mitchell Kapor Foundation . Hosted by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on June 4, 20092009-07-2111 minCarnegieViewsAlex Chisholm: Games to Teach PerspectivesEducators, content developers, policy makers and investors gathered to determine how they could collaborate to create engaging learning-oriented content that would teach 21st century skills.
Sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Mitchell Kapor Foundation . Hosted by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on June 4, 20092009-07-1712 minCarnegieViewsNina Zolt: Students Just Want to Create and CollaborateEducators, content developers, policy makers and investors gathered to determine how they could collaborate to create engaging learning-oriented content that would teach 21st century skills.
Sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Mitchell Kapor Foundation . Hosted by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on June 4, 20092009-07-1708 minCarnegieViewsLarry Rosenstock: Preparing Kids to Enter an Adult WorldEducators, content developers, policy makers and investors gathered to determine how they could collaborate to create engaging learning-oriented content that would teach 21st century skills.
Sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Mitchell Kapor Foundation . Hosted by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on June 4, 20092009-07-1712 minCarnegieViewsEthan Beard: Facebook For What?Educators, content developers, policy makers and investors gathered to determine how they could collaborate to create engaging learning-oriented content that would teach 21st century skills.
Sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Mitchell Kapor Foundation . Hosted by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching on June 4, 20092009-07-1605 min
My Path to SuccessMitchell KaporMitchell D. Kapor pioneered the consumer software industry as founder of Lotus Development Corporation, and the creator of Lotus 1-2-3, the revolutionary spreadsheet and graphics application. A teenage math prodigy from Freeport, Long Island, he studied psychology, linguistics and computer science -- an unorthodox curriculum for the time -- at Yale University. Kapor had hoped that the study of computer science would serve his ongoing interest in the nature of consciousness, but he grew frustrated with the cumbersome, inaccessible mainframe computers of the day. After graduating at age 20, he worked as a disc jockey, transcendental meditation instructor and mental...1985-06-2911 minEntrepreneursMitchell KaporMitchell D. Kapor pioneered the consumer software industry as founder of Lotus Development Corporation, and the creator of Lotus 1-2-3, the revolutionary spreadsheet and graphics application. A teenage math prodigy from Freeport, Long Island, he studied psychology, linguistics and computer science -- an unorthodox curriculum for the time -- at Yale University. Kapor had hoped that the study of computer science would serve his ongoing interest in the nature of consciousness, but he grew frustrated with the cumbersome, inaccessible mainframe computers of the day. After graduating at age 20, he worked as a disc jockey, transcendental meditation instructor and mental...1985-06-2911 min