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Latitude Live! Featuring Iba Masood

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And now for something completely different…

This week on the podcast we invited the public for a live edition of our little startup podcast and in an intimate setting at the incubator we featuring 2017 43North winner Iba Masood from Tara AI.

Why did Iba emigrate to the United States from Pakistan? Why is it so difficult for women to raise money in the Valley? Why did Tara AI open an office in Buffalo and why is more appealing to new staff members than the west coast? How did she learn to rap the intro to “Fresh Prince of Bel Air?”

Find out the answers to all of those questions and more on this episode of the Latitude Podcast!

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