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Sophia Edelstein, co-founder and co-CEO of Pair Eyewear, shares how she and Nathan Kondamuri were hands-on with hiring for the first several years of their company, focusing on finding the best talent and ensuring shared values. As Pair has grown, they’ve remained close to the hiring process.
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Sophia Edelstein, co-founder and co-CEO of Pair Eyewear, shares how she and Nathan Kondamuri were hands-on with hiring for the first several years of their company, focusing on finding the best talent and ensuring shared values. As Pair has grown, they’ve remained close to the hiring process.
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![Osi Imeokparia (Kode with Klossy) - Training Tech’s Next Gen [Entire Talk]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/c6EJpCQXENA/mqdefault.jpg "Osi Imeokparia (Kode with Klossy) - Training Tech’s Next Gen [Entire Talk]
Founded by supermodel Karlie Kloss, Kode With Klossy teaches young women and gender expansive youth how to code. The organization supports a community of 11,000 from 100-plus countries over more than a decade to ensure their education is effective. CEO Osi Imeokparia shares how long-term support and mentorship for diverse young coders can lead to success in computer science majors and careers in technology. She and Dani Lucas of McKinsey & Company also address the need for shifts in the industry to tackle the broken rung of the tech career ladder, which results in women and underrepresented workers facing challenges in promotions and upward advancement.")
![Starting from ‘Why’ [Entire Talk]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fj97KgzaGIQ/mqdefault.jpg "Starting from ‘Why’ [Entire Talk]
Cody Coleman is the co-founder and CEO of Coactive AI, an analytics platform for visual content. Coactive AI leverages artificial intelligence to make it easy for enterprise companies to search, filter, and analyze large amounts of image and video data by bringing structure to unstructured data. In this presentation, Coleman shares how his life story has shaped the type of entrepreneur he aims to be. He gives advice for fellow founders who want to build positive company cultures and teams.
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![Speed Versus Long-Term Success [Explicit] - Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao (Stanford)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gta0J737ZlA/mqdefault.jpg "Speed Versus Long-Term Success [Explicit] - Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao (Stanford)
Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao, Stanford professors and authors of “The Friction Project,” advise founders on the risks of growing as fast as they can. Sutton shares a story about Waze to illustrate the benefits of slowing down and warns against the trend of hiring as fast as possible in the growing AI industry. Rao explains research showing that an emphasis on speed leads to errors and lies.
(EDS NOTE: THIS CLIP INCLUDES EXPLICIT LANGUAGE.)
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