AI for Process, People for Heart: GoFundMe’s Tim Cadogan

A time of crisis often requires the need for ongoing assistance, but many of us struggle with requesting help from others. GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan joins us to explain how the fundraising company is using artificial intelligence to make such times easier, drawing on lessons from tens of millions of fundraisers to help people tell their stories and mobilize their communities.

Tim shares how GoFundMe’s AI-powered fundraising coach is reducing stress, building confidence, and helping people raise more without losing the human connection at the heart of giving. The conversation explores a compelling vision for AI: not replacing people but helping us act on one of our most fundamental instincts — to help one another.

Guest bio:

Since 2020, Tim Cadogan has been the CEO of the fundraising platform GoFundMe, which people have used to raise over $40 billion for themselves, loved ones, communities, and nonprofits. 

Previously, he was CEO of OpenX, which he built into one of the world’s largest ad exchanges, and Yahoo, where he led the global advertising business and ran the consumer search division. He began his career at Boston Consulting Group in London. 

Cadogan received his bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Master in Philosophy from Oxford University, and a Master in Business Administration from Stanford University. He has served as a search and rescue volunteer since 2010.

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