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Seedcamp Podcast, Episode 29: Scott Harrison, Founder & CEO of charity: water

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In the ‘Seedcamp Podcast Series’ we talk with key people in the tech startup industry to hear their stories and gleam key advice and learnings from their experiences.

In 2004, Scott Harrison served as a photojournalist for Mercy Ships in Liberia, West Africa, where he learned the life-threatening effects of contaminated water. Upon moving back to his home in New York City in 2006, he founded charity: water. This is his story.

We talk about how the idea came about, some of the personal challenges he went through, what gave him strength through his founder journey, and even how managed to make ends meet as he was fundraising for his company.

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Seedcamp Podcast, Episode 28: Dan Hill, Product Lead at Airbnb

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In the ‘Seedcamp Podcast Series’ we talk with key people in the tech startup industry to hear their stories and gleam key advice and learnings from their experiences.

Dan Hill is Product Lead at Airbnb and former co-founder and CTO at Seedcamp company Crashpadder. He blogs at danhilltech.com and tweets at @serenestudios.

We had a chance to sit down with him and chat about his experience with Crashpadder and now at Airbnb, and life lessons he’s learned along the way.

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Seedcamp Podcast, Episode 23: Eytan Lerba, Entrepreneur & Googler

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While visiting YouTube’s main offices in California, we had the chance to meet with Eytan Lerba, a Founder turned Googler (currently he’s a Manager of Strategy at YouTube) who had some very interesting stories to tell regarding his journey starting Wizit.

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Seedcamp Podcast, Episode 21: Sten Tamkivi, Co-founder & CEO of Teleport

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In the ‘Seedcamp Founder Series’ we talk with the founders of Seedcamp companies to understand their motivations, challenges and successes.

Sten, Co-founder & CEO of Teleport, a Seedcamp & A16Z company, has created an online service to help discover and budget your next move.

During our US Trip we had the chance to sit down and learn how his notable background (serial entrepreneur, advisor to the President of Estonia, GM at Skype, and EIR at A16Z) helped shape the origins of the company and how he’s serving an ever increasing pool of people around the world who are mobile because of their career.

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Seedcamp Podcast, Episode 17: Richard Liu, Founder of DSPTCH

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In the ‘Seedcamp Podcast Series’ we talk with key people in the tech startup industry to hear their stories and gleam key advice and learnings from their experiences.

Building a brand is no easy feat, in particular, a brand that generates customer passion. Richard Liu, an ex-Paypal and LinkedIn team member, decided to pursue his passion and build a brand around what he needed, and we had the chance to catch up with him and hear how he went from desk jockey to brand jockey in the process.

DSPTCH is a bag, case and accessory manufacturing company based in San Francisco. Their products focus on taking military and tactical functionality and reapplying it to consumer travel bags and accessories.

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