{"id":346,"date":"2017-10-17T20:58:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T04:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spring.is\/old\/?p=346"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:57:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:57:45","slug":"partners-radical-io","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spring.is\/old\/partners\/partners-radical-io\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming Our New Partners Radical I\/O To The Spring Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Radical I\/O is a mobile and web app development agency based right here in Vancouver B.C. The (growing!) team of 11 is led by husband and wife team, Ian and Briana who founded Radical I\/O in 2014. Radical I\/O is passionate about delivering purpose over profit in a tech environment. They do this by creating positive impact with their community, employees, partners, and clients<\/span><\/p>\n

We spoke with Briana to help you get familiar with this group of tech changemakers, what they do, and how they are making an impact.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tell us more about how you got to where you are today:<\/b><\/h3>\n

I\u2019ve always been interested in the public good, education’s impact on being a societal equalizer, and international development. <\/span><\/p>\n

I had the opportunity to bring<\/span> App Camp For Girls<\/span><\/a> to Vancouver in the summer of 2015. This opportunity further solidified that I had made the right decision in changing careers and co-founding my own tech company. During that time, I also met some amazing people who were also passionate about making a difference by promoting gender diversity in tech. I found that I could use my new position for good.<\/span><\/p>\n

At first, I felt many moments of “imposter syndrome” in being a part of the tech world. However, with my strong vision of impact, plus Ian\u2019s support, I decided to turn all those feelings to promoting inclusion in my company. \u00a0I am my own success story, and I want to bring out that same potential in others. We welcomed people who didn’t fit into those old stereotypical tech molds. We helped diverse people feel accepted, heard, encouraged in joining a tech company.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Briana Sim and App Camp for Girls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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What are Radical\u2019s core values? How do you cultivate them in the business?<\/b><\/h3>\n

Radical I\/O\u2019s core values are: \u00a0<\/span>integrity, respect, acceptance, collaboration, honesty, empathy, positive impact.<\/i><\/b> This comes through in day-to-day interactions within the team and clients, in how they communicate, act, write job postings, hold interviews and build relationships.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Every chance we get, we ask ourselves, do our actions reflect who we are and what we say? We want to make people’s lives better with everything we do – whether that’s our team members, our clients, app users, or society at large. Without this vision of purpose, what we do would just feel like a “job”. We’re not interested in jobs and neither are our team members; instead we’re interested in being invested in what we do, in believing in what we do, in feeling proud of what we do. Our work, our company, our office should be a place of refuge, knowledge-building, excitement, trust, growth – it’s where people go to escape the stressors of their life and to feel valued and impactful.<\/span><\/p>\n

We love to design and develop technology with purpose. Either through helping social impact enterprises realize their vision through tech, or through the consulting and products we build that connect people together and help make their everyday lives easier.<\/p>\n

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Kathryn and Sharon from Radical I\/O at Spring Showcase<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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What are some of the main ways that you help clients?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A common issue that tech startups encounter is taking their business from MVP to a full-fledged product. On one hand, their product has gained traction and is making revenue (or has the funding to scale). On the other hand, polishing and perfecting an MVP is a huge project for a business, and therefore results in a lot of questions like:<\/p>\n