{"id":51867,"date":"2018-08-09T13:39:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T12:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/?p=51867"},"modified":"2021-05-18T16:25:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:25:38","slug":"ben-clifford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/ben-clifford\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Clifford"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Ben is the community director for Founders Pledge, a network of over 1,000 entrepreneurs who have committed over $500m to effective causes.<\/p>\n<p>Members include the founders of WeWork, Deepmind and YCombinator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4e4e4e\">Ben was previously director of community for Giving What We Can, the international society promoting effective poverty interventions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4e4e4e\">He is also a full stack web developer and has experience in the London and Paris start-up scenes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4e4e4e\">Before starting at Founders Pledge, Ben was building software in Ghana to provide offline access to education websites. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4e4e4e\">Ben has a first class degree in philosophy from the University of Warwick.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben is the community director for Founders Pledge, a network of over 1,000 entrepreneurs who have committed over $500m to effective causes. 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