Recidiviz, a technical nonprofit that provides open source data tracking and management software for state prison, probation and payrolls systems, became astoundingly important in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the prison system. 

Protocol's Anna Kramer sat down with Clementine Jacoby, the company’s co-founder and CEO, to talk about the last year inside her company, what it’s like hiring top tech talent for nonprofit pay, why engineers want to work for mission-driven companies, and the lessons other future founders might learn from her own path from ex-Googler to nonprofit founder.

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