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ALEX AMOUYEL

“Solve was founded on the belief that there is ingenuity everywhere. We organize workshops around specific challenges to improve the lives of millions of people living on the margins. Then we issue a call for solutions. Anybody can submit. You can be at a university, a business, or a refugee camp. The proposals are judged by a diverse panel—experts like Lauren Powell Jobs, former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, Yo-Yo Ma—that selects a class of up to ten solvers per challenge that we connect with people who have resources to really help them scale. “There are lots of challenge models out there, but most of them say, ‘We are looking for solutions that do X, and we’ll give one person a million dollars.’ That’s not what spurs innovation. A check alone won’t…

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Outside (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2017

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