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Changing the World

on YouTube 28m
Talkat Strange Loop 2018 · 2018-09-26..09-28· [career-development]

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name:Erica Joy Baker
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video:https://youtu.be/gi02tn3K2b4
slides:none on file

summary

Tech built ad-targeting, mass harassment systems and propaganda machines; algorithms trained on biased arrest data used in sentencing literally affect lives; venture capital incentives create venture capital pushes hypergrowth that rewards exits over ethics; some companies grow sustainably — MailChimp: $500M revenue without VC — showing alternatives. Concrete actions include auditing data and pay, starting a spreadsheet for equity, documenting misuse to whistleblowers, and rejecting feature requests that harm users, one patch and one pull request at a time.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 0:59Erica Joy Baker
  3. 10:37The Small Business Investment Act of 1958
  4. 16:19Step One Have an Idea
  5. 17:35Mailchimp
  6. 25:53Call to Action

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