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How the White House Got Silicon Valley to Take On the Refugee Crisis
After the president's request, Silicon Valley code writers went to work at record pace.
White House and Silicon Valley Take On Syria Crisis
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Even Jason Goldman, a former senior technology executive at companies including Twitter, Medium, and Google, was surprised by how quickly some of his former Silicon Valley colleagues were able to answer the call.
Goldman, now sitting in Washington as the first-ever White House chief digital officer, and his colleague Joshua Miller, a former Facebook employee overseeing the Obama administration's digital products, had gone to work lining up allies for a push to aid the waves of Syrian refugees flooding out of the country a little over a week prior. Now they were staring at donation platforms, crafted from scratch, that were ready to roll out.