Big Tech ditched its roots as a force for good – Shelley Taylor, founder, trellyz

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🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Shelley Taylor, founder of trellyz and RefAid, discusses how coming to the UK from Silicon Valley helped her understand the 'big picture problems', how Big Tech has moved away from its roots as a force for good, and the need for non-profits to think like businesses.

Taylor works with governments and their non-profit partners to provide more efficient coordination for rapid responses. She also created RefAid, a group looking at innovative solutions to address the refugee crisis. Taylor discusses why investors have historically ignored goodwill projects and why global pressure is changing that.

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0:00.0	We grew up with a sense of balancing social good,
0:09.0	trying to find technology solutions that would make the world a better place.
0:13.0	That is not the case at all today.
0:17.0	And the things that have been broken have been broken primarily by Big Ten.
0:26.6	There's going to be some controls. I hope to see some of that coming from Europe. It's probably not going to happen anytime soon in the U.S. with who we have in charge of things now,
0:31.6	aided and abetted by Elon Musk.
0:36.6	There is a bottom line, which is efficiency, but we get caught up a little bit too much
0:41.7	in the for good part without thinking about for-profit.
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1:21.4	Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakings of the UK tech industry
1:28.4	and the destination for all things UK tech related. And today I am joined by Shelley Taylor,
1:34.3	who is from the UK but is an American and entrepreneur who founded Trellis, a platform that supports
1:40.1	NGOs with humanitarian relief and Ref Aid, an app designed to help refugees.
1:46.0	And obviously a passionate campaigner for tech for good.
1:50.0	Welcome, Shelley.
1:51.0	Hi, thanks. Nice to be here.
1:53.0	Now, I mentioned a couple of the things that you've been involved with,
1:57.0	and I want to talk about them in a while,
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