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Ade Hassan is the founder and CEO of the lingerie brand Nubian Skin. Founded in 2014, the company brought a simple yet innovative product to the fashion industry - nude lingerie and hosiery for women with darker skin tones. In 2017, Ade was awarded an MBE for services to fashion in recognition of Nubian Skin’s inclusive and innovative mission to “redefine nude.”

In this episode Ade discusses:

• How she built the company despite having no fashion industry experience
• The huge demand for Nubian Skin products in the entertainment industry
• How she thinks about the size of the market for Nubian Skin
• Her advice for companies looking to develop more inclusive products

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Joining me on the very first episode of Made For Us is Cliff Weitzman, the Founder and CEO of Speechify, a text-to-speech app that uses AI to turn text from documents, websites and email to audio.

Speechify has been downloaded by over 20 million users and is the #1 rated AI text-to-speech app in its category on Apple’s App Store. Among its user base are people with dyslexia, ADHD, low vision and other conditions that make reading difficult. In 2017, Weitzman made the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work making the internet more accessible to people with learning disabilities.

In this episode, Cliff discusses:

• How his dyslexia fueled his entrepreneurial drive
• Why he decided that dyslexia was what he wanted to solve
• The advances in AI that made a product like Speechify possible
• How Speechify has helped make reading more accessible

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Introducing Made for Us, a new podcast exploring the intersection of innovation and inclusion. The weekly show tells the stories of the founders, inventors and nonconformists who've made it their mission to create products that work better for everyone. Produced and hosted by Tosin Sulaiman, a podcaster and former business journalist with Reuters and The Times.