Innovaitors

Can AI help global companies access and effectively manage the best talent around the world? Listen as Jeremy Johnson, co-founder and CEO of Andela, chats with Zach about how Andela is solving the global technical talent shortage by building distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software developers. ##Distributing Opportunity The founding team of Andela was an incredible group of people coming together around the idea that brilliance is evenly distributed around the world, but opportunity is not. One of the biggest challenges for Andela is helping people realize that race, gender, and nationality have nothing to do with aptitude and ability. Often times in the US tech world, people think of Africa almost like a country and don’t realize that it’s actually 54 incredibly diverse countries and the youngest, fastest growing continent. ##Matching Talent Globally Andela is a global company, specializing in engineering as a service. They help companies scale their product roadmap by providing talent and te