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Richard Bartlett

Richard Bartlett joined Democracy Innovators Podcast for a conversation about Loomio and how horizontal decision-making is different from society's habits.

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Donate on PayPal Automatic transcription of the Interview with Richard Bartlett, it may contain errors. Alessandro: Welcome to another episode of Democracy Innovator podcast, and our guest today is Richard Bartlett. Thank you for your time, Richard. Richard: Yeah, it's good to be here. Happy to talk about this important topic. Alessandro: As I told you, I'm very interested in governance, technology, and politics. I saw that you co-founded Loomio. As a first question, I'd like to ask you for a short story about Loomio and how it happened that it became a platform. Richard: Yeah, I think it's very important to understand the political context that it comes from. I graduated in 2008 with an engineering degree, got my first engineering job, and then there was a financial crisis. I immediately lost my job and was unemployed. That was like the start of my career immediately got interrupted. So

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Richard Bartlett about Loomio and how horizontal decision-making is different from society's habits