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Laura Weidman Powers

Laura Weidman Powers

My Next Move: Base10

Today I’m thrilled to share that I will be joining the venture firm Base10 to lead operations for the Advancement Initiative, their new…

4 min readMay 27, 2021

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My Next Move: Base10

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Laura Weidman Powers

How Nerd Girls’ Weekend Changed My Life

About that time I decided to put my career on pause and follow a half-baked dream.

5 min readMar 14, 2019

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How Nerd Girls’ Weekend Changed My Life

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Laura Weidman Powers

How I Got Burned in My Last Strategic Planning Process (and What You Can Do to Avoid It)

In late 2015, Code2040 had been around for 3.5 years. We were doing well with a ton of momentum, early successes, and, after some tight…

5 min readDec 10, 2018

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How I Got Burned in My Last Strategic Planning Process (and What You Can Do to Avoid It)

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No One Talks about Severance and That’s Because the Process Sucks

If you’re a people manager, eventually you’ll have to fire someone

8 min readNov 30, 2018

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No One Talks about Severance and That’s Because the Process Sucks

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Laura Weidman Powers

Why Silicon Valley Needs More Social Entrepreneurs

This is the script for a public lecture I gave at the American University of Rome in Rome, Italy on October 4, 2018. Since I ad-libbed a…

9 min readOct 9, 2018

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Why Silicon Valley Needs More Social Entrepreneurs

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How to Respond to “That Guy” Who Wants Quality over Diversity

I was on a conference call the other day and we were discussing a talent selection process. At one point the topic of diversity came up. It…

3 min readSep 25, 2018

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How to Respond to “That Guy” Who Wants Quality over Diversity

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Laura Weidman Powers

How It Feels to Find Your Successor

Recently I was asked to “share a personal or professional experience mentoring someone you are particularly proud of and why” and this is…

3 min readSep 12, 2018

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How to Know When It’s Time to Go

Sometime in fall 2017 I made the decision that is was time for Code2040, the successful social enterprise I’d co-founded and run since…

10 min readSep 4, 2018

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How to Know When It’s Time to Go

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Two Things to Consider When Creating Culture from Scratch

Yesterday I was a guest at Lightspeed Ventures. They asked me to come hold office hours for the startups in their summer fellowship program…

4 min readAug 22, 2018

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Two Things to Consider When Creating Culture from Scratch

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When We Rally

Code2040 cofounder Laura Weidman Powers reflects on what it meant to rally in 2017.

3 min readDec 7, 2017

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When We Rally

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Laura Weidman Powers

Laura Weidman Powers

I’ve been to 44 countries. I like food, startups, yoga, and doing good. Base10, Echoing Green, NMV, Obama WH, Code2040. Unstuck Together.

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