Quotes by Leila Janah - Page 2

I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Complement
Entrepreneurial
People See More
People See Company
Averse
Dynamic
Hire
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I think what travelling has done for me and for many generations of my family - my grandmother was a great example - it's really highlighted for me how similar we all are and how many values we all share as people on this planet.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Generations
Family Great Me
Great Example
Similar
Travelling
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I always loved fashion and clothes. Not because I think that's a woman's place, but because I care about aesthetics. I like art; I like going to art museums, and to me, these things are just manifestations of one's aesthetic sense.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Aesthetic
Museums
Art Always Me
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Social business lies in the spectrum of possibility between the traditional, profit-maximizing business, which directs little to no profit to doing good, and the traditional charity, which relies mostly on donations to sustain itself.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Charity
Doing Good
Possibility
Profit
Spectrum
Good Business Doing
Donations
Sustain
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The best way to make employees happy is to set realistic goals and achieve them. The big job is to make sure those small steps are pointing us in the right direction and demonstrate at the end of the year that they all add up to something pretty great.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Add
Best Way
Pointing
Realistic
Right Direction
Steps
Demonstrate
Employees
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth tens of thousands of dollars. I use PhotoPad to sync our Samasource Flickr account to my iPad and slip it out of my purse at cocktail parties to tell our story.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Dollars
Sync
Thousand
Words
Picture
Account
Cocktail
Say
Ipad
Nonprofit
Parties
Picture Is Worth
Right
Purse
Slip
Story
Tell
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
They Say
Thousand Words
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Much like the opportunities that factory work provided for working-class Americans in the last century, microwork will provide opportunities for marginalized people in this one. All they really need is basic literacy, a cheap computer, and an internet hookup.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Literacy
Marginalized
Working Class
Work Internet People
Cheap
Factory
Last Century
Provided
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So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Charity
Charity Work
Civil Society
Corporations
Day To Day
Selfless
Nights
Weekends
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Most philanthropists want to be effective altruists. But the problem isn't intention: it's measurement. Unlike financial investing, which has reporting standards, audit processes, and educational requirements, social investing is notoriously tricky to evaluate.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Educational
Evaluate
Intention
Investing
Measurement
Requirements
Standards
Tricky
Audit
Unlike
Philanthropists
Processes
Reporting
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Often, we think that things are the way they are because of intelligent design - because somebody super-smart, or some group of academics, came up with the best system ever to do XYZ. Actually, things are often the way they are because of an accident of history.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Intelligent
Academics
Accident
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I'm the founder and CEO of Sama Group, a family of social enterprises - Samasource, Samahope and SamaUSA - that are working to alleviate poverty by connecting the global community to opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and here in the U.S.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Alleviate
Asia
Caribbean
Ceo
Connecting
South Asia
Sub Saharan Africa
Enterprises
Founder
Sub-Saharan
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I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Discrimination
Disparaging
Figures
Senior
Male
Mentors
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We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don't think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we're leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Amount
Billions
Disservice
Harness
International
Leaving
Solve
Work Money People
Aid
Capital
Connect
Dignified
Large
Large Amounts
Private
Realized
Table
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Microwork gives marginalized people a chance to earn a living by playing a vital role in the business processes of big companies. In parallel, the organization assists local entrepreneurs in running microwork centers, helping to grow a new pool of business talent across the developing world.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Big Companies
Developing
Helping
Marginalized
Organization
Pool
Centers
Developing World
Earn
Entrepreneurs
Parallel
Processes
Vital
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The core concept of Samasource is essentially that technology helps us unlock human talent wherever it may happen to reside. That we should no longer be victims of the birth lottery. That no one should be stuck in a poor place where they don't have a job simply because of an accident of birth.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Technology
Birth
Core
Lottery
Poor
Stuck
Talent
Job
Accident
Concept
Simply
Essentially
Happen
Helps
Longer
Reside
Unlock
Victims
Wherever
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I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most development programs are started and led by people with Ph.Ds in economics or policy. Samasource is part of a cadre of younger organizations headed by entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Backgrounds
Cadre
Economics
Hungry
New Ideas
Entrepreneurs
Organizations
Headed
Programs
Led
Non-Traditional
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I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Future
Charity
Colonialism
Helpless
Humanity
Problem
Recognise
Spectrum
Today
Full
View
System
Tends
The Problem With
Victims
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I think the philosophy that you have to have if you travel frequently is, stuff is just stuff. Even if it has some sentimental or family connection, if you lose it in the world, it's still just a thing, and I think if you don't have that attitude, you will get incredibly stressed out and not enjoy your travels.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Attitude
Travel
Sentimental
Stressed
Connection
Frequently
Incredibly
Lose
Travels
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Samasource's largest clients are technology companies such as Microsoft, Google, Getty Images, and TripAdvisor, which contract with my company rather than a traditional outsourcing company in order to participate in 'impact sourcing' - conscious efforts to reduce poverty by moving money into places that need it.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Clients
Conscious
Google
Microsoft
Outsourcing
Contract
Efforts
Images
Largest
Participate
Reduce
Technology Companies
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The perception in Silicon Valley is that if you dress well, you couldn't possibly be smart, or you're in P.R. but couldn't possibly run a company. I remember briefly attempting the Adidas and jeans and sweatshirt over T-shirt look, but I realized I was trying to dress like a young tech geek, and that just wasn't me.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Attempting
Jeans
Perception
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Smart
Look Dress Me
Realized
Tech
Valley
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Like so many first generation children of Indian immigrants, I learned to believe in a dream that is as much American as it is universal: a dream of equal opportunity for all based on merit, of power concentrated not in the hands of a few at the top, but fanning across a large, educated, and civically engaged middle class.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Educated
Engaged
Equal Opportunity
Immigrants
Indian
Merit
Middle Class
Concentrated
Fanning
First Generation
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Through my studies, I became increasingly disillusioned with the international aid system. I think we systematically deny poor people the chance to engage as equals in the global economic order. At best, we give them handouts or tiny loans and hope they will suffer a bit less from extreme poverty. We don't view them as equals.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Deny
Disillusioned
Economic
Extreme Poverty
International
Poor
Poor People
Poverty
Tiny
Best Hope Chance
Extreme
Aid
Became
Engage
Equals
Global
Increasingly
Loans
Studies
View
Suffer
Systematically
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We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Customs
Delivery
Efficient
Friendly
Manage
Officials
Schedules
Shipping
Tapping
Roads
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Samasource creates jobs in regions where more traditional forms of employment in low-income economies, such as manufacturing, are difficult to scale because of poor infrastructure. In a village in Rukka, India, for example, our small data entry partner employs over 60 people doing various types of Internet research for Samasource.
Leila Janah / Business Person
Data
Employment
Entry
Infrastructure
Low Income
Manufacturing
Regions
Village
Scale
Forms
Creates
Economies
For Example
Partner
Types
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