On Tuesday, 4th August of 2015 a conversation was held with the president Barak Obama at the White House for a Demo Day where the entrepreneur from Atlanta, Ga., Jewel Burks had the most precious chance of conversing regarding her initiative of Partpic.
Jewel Burks along with the co-founder Jason Crain explained the ways they came up with the idea of launching Partpic which is an application developed for the purpose of helping companies recognize and order the exact replacement part for getting back their machines’ functionality.
From her experience of working in a parts call center and her childhood occurrence of helping her grandfather into getting a replacement part for his tractor helped her to turn up with the idea of this company. Her desire to help people out in searching for the part needed for their machines is what that drives her into this endeavour.
What was most inspiring for Burks, the President showed genuine interest in understanding the comprehensive details of the company. At the Demo Day, Burks’s company was one of the 30 start-ups and 90 entrepreneurs who were all invited to take a role in the initiative taken on the part of the administrative that will encourage many to include in the tech industry.
Obama cited that if the companies on a global scale continue to put stress in employing diverse leadership, there will create more scope for opportunity. The lack of participation is possibly the reason that the companies are not doing good. In this occasion Obama had been more particular in mentioning that women CEOs are employed in less than 3% venture capital-backed companies, at the same time, less than 1% companies have an African American as their founder.
The president announced that miscellany initiatives will be taking place with new public-private tech firms along with more than 40 leading venture capital firms for the purpose of increasing varied practices for hiring and funding. The co-founder of The Electronic Frontier Foundation and his wife Freada Kapor have committed a $40 million investment for the development in the tech sector.
Adding to the success of Obama’s administration, over 100 engineering schools have pledged to TechHire initiative that will focus on diversity hiring and more comprehensive student enrolment.
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