Cause an Affect

Tyrone Poole, Founder of OneApp


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Tyrone Poole, founder of OneApp, has a story to tell - going from the top of his firefighter class to homeless a year later to now a successful software entrepreneur and Portland's brightest hope to make a dent in our homeless crisis. Tyrone shattered his leg in a firefighter training exercise and spent nearly a year in a hospital, racking up personal debt and defaulting on rent payments and his car getting repossessed. Getting out of the hospital was a rude awakening with no car and no home to go to. Still on crutches, job prospects were slim. Tyrone was couch surfing at family and friends houses - trying to be invisible and out of the way. After 3 months, he was out of favors and on the streets, homeless.
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Cause an AffectBy Ryan Buchanan

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