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Investing for Impact: Ordinary Work for Extraordinary People (full documentary) - YouTube
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after I've been working in finance in 10
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years I wanted to make a difference to
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create the better and more inclusive
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world based on the individual strengths
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to do something meaningful but at the
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same time the business
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and that's how I decided to start
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unica's unica's is IT company that only
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employs people with autism we do
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software development services we do data
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science services and we also do software
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testing
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our clients include companies like DMB
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Oakland or SB h nom and no they are
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different clients within different
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industries my name is Jung Cheston I'm a
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consultant at unica's Asperger syndrome
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is a neurological condition which mixes
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I'm a thing can feel a little bit
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different than others
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and this can manifest in a number of
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different ways some of the common traits
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would be that very narrow intense
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interest maybe and often being kind of
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introvert some are sensitive to sounds
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light picky eaters and many other things
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what do you think is the cold red eaters
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it's a bit
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oh okay I had wondered for several years
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before that there was something wrong
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with me because I felt that I was a
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little bit different than other people
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but I couldn't quite put nothing right I
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believe I was nine and a half years old
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when my father had a computer and they
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he told me to to try to type in program
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he had and see what happens so I did
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that and I have no idea what what the
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code meant but I got very curious to see
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to find out you know I was typing this
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this incomprehensible and things and
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something happened and I got very
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curious how hell that would be so I
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started to to figure out about
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programming already at that age I have
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to have a PhD in mathematics from the
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University of Oxford and when I was
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studying I wasn't particularly concerned
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about getting a job I thought if I have
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a degree from Oxford the world would be
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at my feet so thick but what I've found
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when I went to job into use was that
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they were very often more interested in
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personal traits like being outgoing
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being being motivating people
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cooperating people basically the
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salesman type of people and I'm not
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really that that's kind of person so I
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found it difficult to find a job despite
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having this indication
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my name is guru Langston I work for Dean
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bee and I'm responsible for IT banking
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services Dean B is the largest financial
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services group in Norway and also in the
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Nordics didn't be choose to work with
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unicoos because they are a niche player
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within the field testing and quality
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assurance and Kristin I've been working
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for Dean D as a consultant for a few
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years his advantage is that he has the
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capability to really dig deep down in
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the complex algorithms and also analyze
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huge volume of data if you read about
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dust bugs in a textbook you will often
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get the impression that they don't have
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any contact with other people at all
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just sit in the corner and memorized
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train schedules something like that
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that's not really true for for most of
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us and we all have our strengths and
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weaknesses so if you think you know one
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person it asparagus you know one and you
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not know all of them for me it's
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important to take care of them and
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interact with them taking into account
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their personality in the same way as I
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do with other colleagues
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[Music]
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over the last ten years we have been
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supporting unique use for the
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combination of financial and
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non-financial food support and following
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the venture philanthropy approach
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my name is Espen dough and I work in
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business development at five social
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entrepreneurs initially we get
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immigrants paid out in tranches upon
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achieving certain milestones both social
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and financial we added non-financial
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support and help them achieve their
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specific goals we helped them build
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their management team we help them with
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corporate governance and a lot lacings
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after three years of providing a
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combination of financial and
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non-financial support unicoos was
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profitable and had a stable customer
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base in 2013
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from then on we provided non-financial
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support over a period of three years and
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unique use was was growing steadily and
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in developing a stable
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the financial support that we received
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from farad that was very important to us
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of course but the non-financial support
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was also extremely important and maybe
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more important during the phases that we
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went through
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in 2016 Larsen unica's came to us again
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and asked for support in scaling the
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company detect him further on their
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journey so we invested in the company
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became shareholders and embarked on an
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impact journey with them outside of
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Norway we felt that we had to tailor our
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investment to meet the needs of unique
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use and for us to make an equity
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investment at this stage was was new you
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can't thank you okay thanks for coming
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Aspen always pleasure yeah first social
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entrepreneur is an investor for impact
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because we focus on the social issue
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that the social entrepreneurs are out
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there to solve and that's where our
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heart is we want to help them solve
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those issues and also to scale the
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social effect that they are producing
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and to us the venture philanthropy is
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about doing that and that is combining
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business with social effects so we try
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to do that and provide the entrepreneurs
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with both financial support and non
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financial support in doing that and a
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big part of the non-financial support is
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to give them our competence on how to
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build business but also on how you work
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with impact management
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without fat we wouldn't have been what
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we are today we would have been in
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Sweden we will camp in in Finland and we
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would not have been as many consultants
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as we are today so they have been really
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important for us to to help us grow and
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to able to share risk and also to
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contribute to develop the company and it
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is about the relation that you build
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with an entrepreneur and the trust you
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build along the way to listen both ways
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on different advices and and where we
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want to go and what ambitions we have
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the thing I'm most proud of with 煤nicos
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is that we've been able to prove that
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people with autism can make a real
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difference and create a highly valuable
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service and perform services better than
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other companies actually working with
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unicoos is for me just like working with
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other people they have their own
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specialities like other employees unique
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uses clear proof that we can all be
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valuable resources in the society no
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matter what the background we have
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we all have our strengths and weaknesses
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and for the sake of other people with
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Asperger's I hope that other employers
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can see the strengths like unique
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justice
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