Back in 2018, Alex Stephany took to the TEDx stage in Brighton, UK, to present his new company, Beam. Stephany wasn’t hawking a new social network or AI-powered productivity software. His new company was, he said, “the world’s first crowdfunding platform to support homeless people.”
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