Leila Janah is the Founder and CEO of Samasource, a non-profit social business that gives digital work to impoverished people around the world.
Prior to Samasource, Janah was a a Visiting Scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and Australian National University's Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. She was a founding Director of Incentives for Global Health, an initiative to increase R&D spending on diseases of the poor, and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.). She has also worked at the World Bank and as a travel writer for Let's Go in Mozambique, Brazil, and Borneo.
Leila Janah received a BA from Harvard.
Biggest mistake? I think the biggest mistake we made was not being bold enough at the beginning. At the beginning, when people kept saying, no, this was a silly idea, there was a part of me that started to internalize it and make our projections...we had smaller projections. We raised less money ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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