Laila Janah
15 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Laila Janah · across every show →
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Jan 2, 2019 negative
Janah: Non-profits are trapped in starvation mode by donors measuring overhead
“I think most nonprofits, I would venture to say, are in starvation mode, and they're in starvation mode largely driven by this culture of measuring them based on how much they spend on overhead versus program, which is just so sad.”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Janah: A non-profit's main duty is reporting objective learnings from experiments
“To me, the only the only obligation you have if you take public money and spend it on a non-profit is to report back truthfully, objectively, and to a great level of detail on what you learned, what was the outcome of the experiment.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Janah: Sama Group measures success by sustained poverty reduction to living wages
“In our case at Sama Group, we're not a B Corp, we're a non-profit, but we look at the outcome of Poverty reduction. So we look at how many people were able to move from a baseline of below the poverty line to a living wage level, and how long we can sustain th…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019
Janah: Social entrepreneurship is the middle ground between nonprofits and profit-maximizers
“To me, social entrepreneurship is the middle ground between the traditional nonprofit charitable model that receives no earned revenue, and the profit maximizing business whose goal is to maximize profit above other concerns.”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Janah: Mark Zuckerberg is not a social entrepreneur despite Facebook's social benefit
“While I don't think that makes Mark Zuckerberg and the Facebook co-founders social entrepreneurs, because I don't think they're Our first concern was social justice or improving improving Poverty outcomes, per se, or improving the lives of marginalized people.…”
Jan 2, 2019
Janah: Education alone cannot stop sex trafficking; job creation is required
“So if we want to end sex trafficking, educating people I really don't think is going to solve the problem, but creating better jobs for those women and making sure that they have the appropriate training to attain those jobs, that's the way we're going to solv…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Janah: A slight corporate tax increase should fund gig worker benefits
“You could increase, this might be unpopular, but you could increase the corporate tax rate by a very small amount, and use that increase to fund, you know, the equivalent of four one K's for those workers, or other types of benefits that are necessary.”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Janah: Silicon Valley startups solving problems for the wealthy lack global impact
“I have seen a lot of companies in the Valley get funded that are working on Me Too problems, or problems that only affect extremely wealthy people in extremely wealthy countries. Personally, that's not very compelling to me, and I don't think those types of bu…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Janah: Marketplace network effects disproportionately enrich founders and investors over workers
“I would say that the biggest risk we face is that the network effect that's produced by many of these marketplaces, which creates this incredible dividend for the founders and investors and those companies, isn't shared as widely as it could be. With the worke…”
Jan 2, 2019
Janah: True social impact requires embedding good into supply chains, not donations
“One percent for charity kind of programs, so we'll take one percent of profit and we'll give it away, or five percent of profit or we will, for every product you buy, give away one of something else, and while that's certainly an improvement over zero I think …”
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Jan 2, 2019
Janah: Lack of economic alternatives is the primary driver of sex trafficking
“The primary driver of sex trafficking is lack of income generating opportunities for Women and their families, which forced them into this horrible trade. People aren't going into that trade because they don't know any better. They're going into it because the…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Janah: Low-income gig economy workers do not feel exploited by platforms
“I think in that case, it's a little bit different from the factory model you know, or the sweatshop argument, in that people have a lot more choice and agency with smartphones and with more flexible working arrangements that the gig economy allows, and I have …”