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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">My name is Emmanuel Legbeti (Calvin Engineering, Class 2004). I am currently an Associate Partner at a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">strategy consulting firm in Chicago, but have decided to build a business around a passion of mine, which is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">where I need your help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Reason for my reach-out:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">I am working on building a business around a technology platform that leverages algorithms and machine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">learning to accelerate an easier way for young professionals to discover their career purpose via curated,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">matched content exploration, seamless scenario iteration, and connecting on-demand with auto-matched<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">networks. In essence we are seeking to use this technology to democratize hard to access tribal knowledge on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">career pathing within our isolated / traditional core networks, and to amplify this knowledge of possibilities to a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">broader global audience. We believe that our solution will save both money, time, energy and will mitigate poor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">decisions for our users, while also accomplishing a much larger mission of changing the world for the better --<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">sharing knowledge in a simpler way with those who don't have access or who are less fortunate, while opening<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">career doors to many for whom they are closed or unapparent, after all …
<i>you don’t know, can’t search for, nor<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">dream about what you don’t know</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">My Ask for you:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Do you know any talented Calvin front-end / full-stack software developers (recent alum and/or current senior<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">students) who would be capable and interested in partnering with me in this endeavor?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">From a functional standpoint, a full-stack software developer with understanding and interests in deep data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">analytics, design and analysis of algorithms, and machine learning will be important. From a web standpoint,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">capabilities in .NET stack, html5, Javascript and if possible CSS3 or similar. In the long-term, interests in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">integrating human-A.I interactions, and VR/AR functionality will also be themes explored / applied in this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">I have received expressed venture capital and angel investor interest, but I need to build a technical team to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">execute my "MVP" in an agile, accelerated fashion, testing my user hypotheses in the market while iterating the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">code in parallel. I have one software engineer already onboard, but need more tech bandwidth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">I am curious to know if this vision and passion is something you or someone you know shares and/or is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">something you want to learn more about and be a part of.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">If interested, reach out to me at
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0564C0">legbeti@gmail.com
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">or 248-921-9332</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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