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- My parents were immigrants from India

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and they came to America to
achieve their American Dream.

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So, any opportunity that
we had, we had to use it,

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not only for our own personal gain,

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but also trying to make the
world a slightly better place

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than when we got here.

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My name is Sheel Tyle.

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I run a venture capital firm called Amplo.

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Here at Amplo we want to
build a venture capital firm

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that believes great entrepreneurship

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can come from anywhere
and look like anything.

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A great entrepreneur can
be from Silicon Valley,

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but a great entrepreneur can
also be from Nairobi, Kenya,

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from Legos, Nigeria
from Jakarta, Indonesia.

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It can be a kid who
dropped out of Stanford,

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it could be a mother with two kids,

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I mean it can be anybody.

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And our belief is that
where you went to school

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and where you grew up
shouldn't be indicative

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of whether you're able to build

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a really meaningful business or not.

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Andela is an extraordinary company.

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The company is founded on the premise

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that talent is universal,
but opportunity is not.

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There are smart young people everywhere

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and yet in countries like
Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya,

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in some cases have 40, 50,
sometimes 60% youth unemployment.

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And yet in other parts of the world

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there are thousands, sometimes
millions, of unfilled jobs.

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And so if you believe
that talent is universal,

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but opportunity is not,
then why does that exist?

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Andela trains the smartest
young people in Africa

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to become world-class
computer science developers.

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And they become remote developers
for some of the world's

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most innovative technology
companies globally.

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It started in Nigeria
and we're now in Kenya,

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Uganda, Rwanda and are just
expanding to Egypt now.

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It's a company that is truly
emblematic of Amplo's mission.

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A company that's solving
a really big problem,

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both employment, but also the shortage

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of computer science talent and by doing it

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is gonna create, and already has created,

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an enormous amount of enterprise value.