Elle Magazine recognizes Samasource
Read how Leila Janah is one of “9 For All Mankind”By Nojan Aminosharei, Allison Davis, Corrie Pikul, and Julia Vadnal
Leila Chirayath Janah, 28
Founder of Samasource
The Problem: “I wanted to learn why countries like Ghana and India, which have such incredible human talent, are so poor.”
Big Idea: Samasource (sama means “equal” in Sanskrit), an organization that outsources simple data-entry and media-tagging tasks for companies like Google to people in low-income countries. Since 2008, Samasource has hired more than 1,200 workers, but “my dream is to show that we can become a $100 million organization with tens of thousands of workers. And do it as a nonprofit.”