F8 Refresh | Partner Spotlight: Expanding equity through innovative products and experiences
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Meesho builds a reseller marketplace that lets mostly women start shops from home and reports 15 million women entrepreneurs selling to 50 million consumers while providing payments logistics and marketing tools and adding gamified community awards that amplify professional identity and respect. Bridgefy delivers a mesh SDK and a messaging app using Bluetooth hops of roughly 100 meters per device to bridge roughly 3 billion people without internet and proves useful at concerts, protests and natural disasters.
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- 0:00Diversity equity inclusion
- 1:46Meesho empowers women entrepreneurs
- 5:03Bridgefy connects the unconnected
- 7:12Equity-focused product outcomes
- 9:21Meesho builds professional identity
- 12:11Building with the ecosystem
- 14:18Advice for purpose-driven founders
- 17:10Adapting to user needs
- 18:56Closing remarks
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