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Jessica McKellar is the founder and CTO of Pilot, an accounting firm powered by software that has raised more than $160 million in venture capital funding. She also founded Zulip, a group collaboration tool that was acquired by Dropbox in 2014, and holds bachelors and masters degrees in computer science from MIT. Working with The Last Mile, a job training and re-entry program that operates inside US prisons, she teaches Python at California’s San Quentin State Prison. McKeller hires formerly incarcerated software engineers, and is passionate about building bridges between the tech industry and individuals impacted by the prison system. This appearance by Jessica McKellar is part of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. Join us virtually at youtube.com/ecorner as we bring founders, investors and industry influencers to center stage and invite them to share what it takes to become a disruptor.