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Austin Hill and the vision behind Akoha

By Heri Apr 20th 2008 in Business, entrepreneurship

Here is a video of Austin Hill explaining his vision and motivation behind akoha.org, a startup to launch later this year.

The akoha website already gives a glimpse of what they are trying to achieve, but I found this video much more meaningful and more powerful than all the logos and colors. A beautiful project for sure, that I found echoed in one of Paul Graham’s recent essay; the question left unanswered now is if they can change people’s behaviour.

A Tara Hunt interview.

Note: this was published a few weeks ago, but I missed it as it was published when I declared a black-outhiatus for everything related to MTW.

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