How the entrepreneur helped tens of thousands of people out of poverty

She's doing a different business. In rural northern Uganda, a group of workers gather in a container equipped with solar cells and high-speed networks. These workers are being trained here by Samasource, a non-profit agency in the United States, to learn that they can find jobs that deal with the simple task of dealing with LinkedIn and Eventbrite technology companies. Samasource, founded by the 31-Year-old San Francisco Leila Janah, was a teenager who taught English at a high school in Africa and realized that many talented young people in poor countries could not find jobs to be squandered in slums. So at the age of more than 20, Janah abandoned the consulting firm's work and created Samasource. Now that Samasource has developed very well, hundreds of young people through its training, found a number of computer operations, such as content review, picture tagging, data entry and so on. Every year Janah can be a charitable reason for many venture capitalists to pay attention to. And recently set up a public-funded website Samahope. Unlike many NGO organizations, Samasource to achieve sustained profitability. And Janah has borrowed a lot of experience from companies like Google. Janah thinks, for them such NGO, lean pioneering method is very helpful. In addition to her boyhood experience, she worked at a senior consulting firm and went to a project in South-East Asia, where she saw the movie Slumdog Millionaire, once again recognising the hopes of young people in poor countries for jobs. In addition, Samasource has established partnerships with companies such as Wal-Mart and ebay. Janah's team is responsible for all training activities. Workers in developing countries get good salaries and career opportunities. Through their model, 15000 people were freed from the poverty line, and 92% were given higher pay jobs or better educational opportunities. Janah says most of their workers are young people under the age of 30, more than half of whom are women. Janah background In fact generally, is through the effort to enter the senior consulting firm, and from the consultancy firm resigned, there is no financial protection. Janah said that the business started to waste a lot of effort, the poorest time, she could not afford social insurance, one months only 400 dollars in income, sleeping on a friend's mat. But she added that it would be much easier to build an NGO now, using flexible methods such as Uber and TaskRabbit. In addition, the first time to run a business also let Janah experience a lot, such as how to deal with the members of the Board, these people are very high level of men, they will consider themselves as a father or a spiritual mentor. Once opinions are inconsistent, they are difficult to accept the rejected knotFruit。 Janah that to adhere to their entrepreneurial vision, do not casually follow the old people's ideas. As a Ceo,janah also learned a lot, she used to think that the CEO is to manage various indicators and achieve the ultimate goal, but now she realized that the CEO will manage the board and the team. Janah that as a female entrepreneur, let your employees feel your enthusiasm. Leadership is not just an idea, it is finding a group of people to realize this idea together. Janah admits she has been used to working 16 hours a day, and she feels that entrepreneurial diligence is necessary, but more work time does not necessarily guarantee greater success. Although she was born with less sleep, Janah and her fiance planned to take a vacation. In the long run, Janah that the only way to success is to have a good network in which you can gain energy and support, and she has started to build such a network.