Remi Sobomehin is the founder and CEO of Ambition Angels, a Palo Alto based non-profit that delivers career exposure and skill building to teenagers through an app and pays them to use it. Only about 11 % of teens go to after school programming, while more than 95 % own a smartphone and spend roughly eight hours a day on it. Rather than compete with the phone, Remi and his team have built his programme inside it. Remi grew up in Portland, Oregon. With his childhood friend, Demetrius Sanders, he set his sights on Stanford and got there eight years later. After graduating, he went to Palo Alto to lead after-school programmes at the boys and girls clubs and kept hitting the same wall. He couldn't get teens to walk through the door. Demetrius, meanwhile, had joined Facebook's team building product for teens, and could see exactly what was reaching them at scale. This is the next episode in our series with our friends with US-based Fast Forward, empowering people to build technology for humanity.
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