#22: Shuyao Kong (Harvard Business School) - On choosing to be a nonprofit over a social enterprise

Founders Couch

Today on the couch, we chat with Shuyao Kong, a student at Harvard Business School who grew up in Beijing, China. She’s the cofounder and Chief Motivator of the nonprofit humanID, a one-click anonymous login replacing login with Facebook. So far, the company has released one test app and integrated with another client, a COVID-tracking app in India. humanID has received funding from Harvard Social Impact Fund. The team consists of 3 cofounders, 20 volunteers and almost 10 open source engineers, and is looking to bring on more volunteers across business and technical functions. We discuss: Why is Shuyao so passionate about data privacy and social impact? How did the founding team validate market need? How has Harvard helped? Why nonprofit versus a social enterprise? What about COVID-19? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/founderscouch/support