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Jul 2015
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171: Skylar Woodward, CEO/Co-Founder of ...

Farnoosh Torabi
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Skylar Woodward is the CEO and Co-Founder of Puddle, an online money sharing network.  He shares how Puddle works and earlier days in his career from co-founding Kiva.org to working at Yahoo! 

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