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Jeff Kofman: Founder of Trint and war correspondent

November 2, 2024·30 min·2 clips
In Haiti, gunfire erupted as Jeff Kofman panicked—until his security guard said, 'Shut up, you're not helping.'
Jeff Kofman, an Emmy-winning war correspondent turned founder of speech-to-text company Trint, discusses how his journalism career shaped his entrepreneurial journey. He shares stories from conflict zones, lessons in leadership, and his vision for integrating AI into media workflows.

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A reporter to founder story that stays strongest when it turns to leadership and management.

Jeff Kaufman's path from reporter to Trint founder gives the episode its shape. He spent more than three decades as a reporter, foreign correspondent, and war correspondent before moving into automated speech to text, and Elliot Moss keeps the conversation grounded in the…

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