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knight foundation report on the state of civic tech

this is a comprehensive overview of the challenges, kinda success stories, and recommendations for the landscape of civic tech. it’s long af, but if you care, totally worth it.

zebras > unicorns

today’s startup culture built around unicorns is fucked up. culture, impact, and purpose is driven by profit for the few instead of progress for many. this zebra concept starts to break that thinking.

closing the gap

freada kapor klein talks about impact investing, which is not the same as philanthropy, in this pod. it’s so important and worth the listen. this the og recode pod when kara swisher was still hosting, but, also, she doesn’t actually host this episode because she was maybe on vacation.