Good morning anons. Stumbles upon another notable death this morning.
Samasource CEO Leila Janah passes away at 37
The startup community has lost another moral leader today.
Leila Janah, a serial entrepreneur who was the CEO and founder of machine learning training data company Samasource, passed away at the age of 37 due to complications from Epithelioid Sarcoma, a form of cancer, according to a statement from the company.
She focused her career on social and ethical entrepreneurship with the goal of ending global poverty, founding three distinct organizations over her career spanning the for-profit and non-profit worlds. She was most well-known for Samasource, which was founded a little more than a decade ago to help machine learning specialists develop better ML models through more complete and ethical training data-sets.
The company is distinct for delivering AI driven services to Fortune 100 companies with a global work force of data specialists, a large number of whom are located in East Africa.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/samasource-ceo-leila-janah-passes-051018007.html
Leila Janah
Leila Janah (October 9, 1982 – January 24, 2020)[1] was the Founder and CEO of Samasource and LXMI, two companies that share a common social mission to end global poverty by giving work to people in need. She was also the author of Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time[2] and co-author of America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age, a book by Rework America: A Markle Initiative.
Janah was born on October 9, 1982 in Lewiston, New York, near Niagara Falls,[3] and grew up in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. She was the daughter of Indian immigrants, who came to the United States with nothing. Janah described her childhood as being difficult, often due to a lack of financial security.[4] As a teenager, Janah worked many jobs, including babysitting and tutoring.[4] She attended the California Academy of Mathematics and Science. She won a scholarship at 17 through American Field Services, and convinced them to let her spend it teaching in Ghana[2] where she spent 6 months during her senior year of high school.[5] In Ghana, Janah taught English to young students in the village of Akuapem, many of whom were blind.[6] Janah has cited this early experience as sparking her passion for working in Africa, and she continued to visit the continent during her time in college.[4]
Janah attended Harvard University, graduating in 2005 with a degree in African Development Studies.[7] While at Harvard, Janah conducted fieldwork in Mozambique, Senegal and Rwanda and consulted to and authored papers for the World Bank's Development Research Group and Ashoka on social and economic rights.[6]
Janah was born on October 9, 1982 in Lewiston, New York, near Niagara Falls,[3] and grew up in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. She was the daughter of Indian immigrants, who came to the United States with nothing. Janah described her childhood as being difficult, often due to a lack of financial security.[4] As a teenager, Janah worked many jobs, including babysitting and tutoring.[4] She attended the California Academy of Mathematics and Science. She won a scholarship at 17 through American Field Services, and convinced them to let her spend it teaching in Ghana[2] where she spent 6 months during her senior year of high school.[5] In Ghana, Janah taught English to young students in the village of Akuapem, many of whom were blind.[6] Janah has cited this early experience as sparking her passion for working in Africa, and she continued to visit the continent during her time in college.[4]
Janah attended Harvard University, graduating in 2005 with a degree in African Development Studies.[7] While at Harvard, Janah conducted fieldwork in Mozambique, Senegal and Rwanda and consulted to and authored papers for the World Bank's Development Research Group and Ashoka on social and economic rights.[6]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Janah