We need to empower ourselves to be the change.

Benjamin Southworth feels that the education system failed him, and his own poor academic record serves as a source of humiliation and embarrassment. He wants to change that education exchange and had founded a start-up that empowers teenagers 16-18 to learn coding, design, public speaking, and other fundamental skills to get them into meaningful work, faster. He speaks on the role of technology as a changemaker and how we should be using it more make change in our world.

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Benjamin has worked in startups his entire life, and is now embarking on founding, developing and exploring as many of his own ideas as he possibly can. He’s is co-founder of several internet related activities; The 3 Beards, Lean Capital & Tech Bikers, and the sole founder of The Ada Lovelace Academy, Paramete.rs, and Changeworks.

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