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#40 - Nina Barnett, Grooop
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Nina is an impressive young entrepreneur who created a safety app while in under grad to address a problem that she and her friends could not find a good solution for. She talks about building an app without a technical background through a partnership and what she had to do to figure out how to build a company around it. Her company Grooop is an app that makes it easy to let friends and family know when a person is safe versus in transit and to discretely notify others when one might be in danger. It strikes a delicate balance between privacy and security, which is a topic that has taken on increasing significance as society grapples with topics such as contact tracing.
Here are many of the resources that John and Nina discussed throughout the interview:
Nina's development partner out of Durham - Smashing Boxes
UNC's Adam's Apprenticeship Program
Vital Voices Non Profit
Hooked - how to build habit forming apps
Check out the video on the Defiance_ YouTube Channel
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