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105 Carolina Recchi | Connecting Education Jun 21, 2021

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This week, we are continuing our Forbes 30 under 30 series with Caroline Recchi. She is the co-founder of EdSights which she founded with her sister Claudia.

University recruitment and retention directors may be the client, but EdSight's customers are college students, especially those at risk of dropping out. It's a chatbot that checks in with students on issues such as engagement, homework, grades, and personal financial issues and problems. The Recchi sisters, Italian immigrants, are looking to help solve the dropout problem.

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104 Ammar Bandukwala | Coder.com Jun 16, 2021

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This week on ReDirected, I got to chat with a co-founder of Coder, Ammar Bandukwala.

Coder’s three co-founders — Bandukwala, Kyle Carberry, and John Andrew Entwistle — first met online while in high school. The three were soon collaborating to build and monetize Minecraft plugins and servers, eventually moving on to a series of other projects, some successful, some not. Frustrated by the complexities of collaborating remotely on software development, after graduation Ammar, Kyle, and John Andrew moved to Austin and started Coder to create the development tools they wish had been available for them. The trio rented a building they nicknamed “The Shack,” hired a couple of developers, and got to work.

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103 Jeremy Cai | Drop Out Entrepreneurship Jun 07, 2021

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Keeping on with our Forbes 30 Under 30 series, today I got to chat with Jeremy Cai.

Jeremy is the founder of Italic, an online retailer that sells luxury goods without the brand names -- or the corresponding markup. Instead, the company designs its own products and then taps the same manufacturers used by high-end labels like Alexander Wang, Burberry and Prada to spin out brandless versions. The manufacturer sets the price and splits the profits with Italic. Italic sells 100 products, ranging from cashmere sweaters to leather wallets to 400 thread-count sheets, with plans to double its assortment by 2020. It raised $13 million in funding in November 2018.

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102 Julia Haried | Bridging the STEM Gap May 24, 2021

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Continuing our Forbes 30 under 30 series, I got to talk to Julia Haried. As the co-founder of MakerGirl, she's working to pave a new path for girls.

It all started in a social entrepreneurship class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign when Julia and Elizabeth Engele were inspired by the question "What bothers you?".

Motivated by their past experiences, MakerGirl was created to inspire young girls to pursue STEM fields through 3D printing sessions in an effort to shrink the gender gap.

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101 Derrick Emsley | Planting 57 Million Trees May 18, 2021

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Today, we are continuing our Forbes 30 under 30 series with Derrick Emsley.

At 16, Derrick and his brother founded a tree planting company that was meant to capitalize on the future of sustainability: carbon offsetting credits. They planted over 150,000 trees while selling carbon offset contracts that totaled over $1 million. While carbon offsetting ended up not being the future, this experience was just the beginning of his tree planting journey. During college, Derrick worked with his fellow co-founders to start tentree, an apparel company that plants ten trees for every piece of clothing sold. So far, the company has planted over 35 million trees - providing local jobs, food security, and environmental benefits

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100 Desh Amilia | Philosophical Film May 10, 2021

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This week on Redirected, I got to chat with Desh Amilia. A product of immigration, integration, and innovation, Sri Lankan-born, Desh Amila, started from humble beginnings before realizing his dream was in the West and migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 2000. Desh has since pioneered his career as an entrepreneur, entertainer, and educator on a global scale.

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After graduating from Melbourne’s Deakin University with a Bachelor of Arts (Media Arts: Screen Studies and Photography) in 2005. Since then, Desh has founded This is 42 & Think Inc., along with being an accomplished filmmaker.

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099 Nicole Hardson-Hurley | Teaching to Tech May 04, 2021

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Continuing our Forbes 30 under 30 series, this week I got to chat with Nicole Hardson-Hurley. Nicole is the Co-Founder and Head of Product of Byteboard, an Area 120 funded startup founded by two women of color on a mission to make software engineering interviews more equitable. We are currently working with companies like Lyft, Figma, and many others to assist them in building a more fair technical interviewing process.

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Forbes 30 under 30 ▶ https://www.forbes.com/pictures/5ddc42fae0af7b0006b251ea/sargun-kaur-27-and-nicole/?sh=b9acc3a70da0

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098 Raz Romanescu | Serial Entrepreneur Apr 26, 2021

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This week on ReDirected, we have serial entrepreneur, Raz Romanescu. His roles include: Co-Founder and CEO of Gamelancer Inc, a platform designed to elevate the online gaming experience; Co-Founder of Underlining Beauty, which owns and operates notable brands such as Tatbrow, Nailboo and Hide; Co-Founder of 10PM Curfew, a female-focused media network founded with actress Bella Thorne that includes Style and Girls on Instagram and TikTok; And Co-Founder of Guff Media, which owns multiple media properties including Memes.com

I got tired writing all of that. His career is truly impressive.

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097 Giorgio Tavecchio | Football to Food Apr 19, 2021

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Italian-born American Football Placekicker and "Gastro-preneur" as co-founder of ElevenTwelve, a lifestyle brand specializing in helping people celebrate life one meal at a time with high-quality wine, pasta, and spreads from the Piemonte Region of Northwestern Italy.

A few topics that we cover:

Giorgio’s childhood and parents
Early days as a foreign service officer
NFL journey in one word
Giorgio’s first full-time job
Sacrifices and the “why”
Monotony in experiences
The origins behind ElevenTwelve
Best way to experience the Italian meal
Importance of being grateful
Three valuable lessons Giorgio has learned
Mentors and role models

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096 Nick Cherukuri | Augmenting Reality Apr 14, 2021

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Continuing our Forbes 30 under 30 series, I got to sit down with Nick Cherukuri. Nick is the founder of ThirdEye and wasn't deterred by the failed consumer roll-out of Google Glass: He believes that augmented reality glasses can "have a life-changing impact on the way workers go about their everyday tasks."

ThirdEye has launched several different models of its smart glasses with features like live video streaming and 3D modeling and has racked up $5 million in paid contracts, with over 500 apps for its platform.

I loved learning about his journey.

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