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Latitude Episode 66: Igniting Buffalo

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So, we just did a thing at 43North.

We partnered with Facebook, M&T Bank, Amazon AWS, Quickbooks, WordPress and WooCommerce to award 27 small businesses grants totaling in $1M.

Just how in the world did this happen?

This week on the podcast we talk to one of the key architects of the program, Dave Jakubowski from Facebook. The WNY native was a 43North judge last year and it was backstage where the seed for Ignite Buffalo was planted.


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