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My name is beri meric, cofounder and ceo of iv. Is my pleasure to introduce all of you to alex kantrowitz. Hello, how are you today . Im doing great. Take you for having me for this. Im really excited for it, weve got our members from across the world joining us for this conversation. Ive been talking about it nonstop over the last few days to the point of annoying white if you friends. Were all very, very excited to learn from you today, so true might everybody the context of a conversation today, together with alex were going to be learning how to compete in the world where no advantage is safe. This concept of always they want is something we can all benefit from. With alex started writing this book im sure he wasnt exactly expecting it to be released in the midst of a pandemic. However, in my view this topic could not be more relevant especially these days when so many of us are forced to have that day one mentality. Help us kick off, alex. Id love to ask you, what you found to be
Discussions series in which we explore the landscape of Economic Opportunity and the implications for individuals and families and communities all across the United States. Our deep appreciation goes to the foundation walmart, cigna and Mastercard Center for their support of opportunity in america series. Focusing on advancing strategies and ideas to help Small Businesses thrive in working people and Small Businesses are taking extraordinary challenges in many a Small Businesses in the Economic Opportunity center to recognize the ethnicity and gender to play the outside role in who has access to opportunit opportunity. And we see today black and latino the health risk are black and latino Small Businesses with ability with covid19 and to get them through. Today is but talk to explore the history of the racial divine and the consequences and how we can emerge the Current Crisis what we had accepted as normal but a healthier society and a stronger economy to the nations ideals and shared
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So the concept of always being one we can all benefit from. When i started to write this book i wasnt expecting it to be released in the midst of a pandemic but in my view the topic could not be more relevant to be forced to have that day number one mentality. I love to ask you what you found to be so important about this topic but you could focus on those workers that Tech Companies cracks and how does that fit into your overall journey . And i come in with a slightly different background instead of going to Journalism School investing neighbor relations. But really i always focused on culture and organizational behavior and infrastructure. That something i always thought about in the background covering the news and the company. So obviously we started to see the tech giant to grow and they tend to fall apart they get bigger and their bureaucratic. Not the that typical lifecycle. So they kept getting stronger and stronger and stronger and as i was spending time i saw those that didnt