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Koji Pereira tells his inspiring story of becoming a senior design leader for some of the world’s hottest tech companies, against all the odds.  

Highlights include:

- What’s enabled you to swim and not sink in tough situations?

- Why was Google’s Orkut social network sunset?
- How can we make our products work for people who have low literacy?
- What hard lessons did you learn leading a startup?
- How did your team discover the idea for Files by Google?

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Who is Koji Pereira?

Koji is the host of the Cells & Pixels podcast and has recently joined Twitter, as a Senior Product Design Manager. There, he leads a talented team that is helping users to discover and find content, and other people that they care about on the social network.

Before Twitter, Koji was the Head of Design at Lyft Business. He also spent nearly a decade at Google, including roles as Head of Design for Google’s original social network (Orkut) and Head of Design for the Curator Team, which included the design, launch, and growth of “Files by Google” to over half-a-billion monthly active users.

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Find Koji here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kojieumesmo/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kojieumesmo/ 
Website: https://bit.ly/2VEnG3P
Medium: https://medium.com/@kojipereira/ 

Cells & Pixels:

Website: https://cellsandpixels.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CellsandPixels/ 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cells.and.pixels/

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/
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