I wish I had known how to “manage up.” I wish I had not believed that my work would speak for itself; the working world requires a bit more than that.
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Ory Okolloh
Co-founder of Ushahidi; lawyer and open-government activist
Kenya
Technology
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Kenyan lawyer and technologist who created the parliamentary-transparency site Mzalendo and co-founded Ushahidi, the crowdsourced crisis-mapping platform built after Kenya's 2007 post-election violence. Later worked at Google and led Omidyar Network's Africa investments.
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I am personally passionate and anal about non-negotiables. If those needs aren't met, I quit. Life is too short to play-act if you don't have to.
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