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Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school
Planet Money
How to Solve a Problem in a Prison
Inmates aren't allowed to have cell phones or internet access, so for his girlfriend to actually send him her picture, she'd have to go and print it out at a drug store. Frederick: "What if they were a company that could make this whole photo thing easier?" Picture gram would allow someone to take a picture, hit a button, and then poof, that printed photo would automatically get sent by mail to prison. When he got out in September of 2011, he brought all those business plans he had developed with him, all those paper spreadsheets and smudged lines, and he headed out for Silicon Valley.
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