Description
Yale's Teresa Chahine on how AI is reshaping social entrepreneurship, joined by two founders building real ventures with it.
Teresa Chahine reflects on how her thinking has shifted over eight years at Yale: away from the solo "hero entrepreneur" and toward collective action, social movements, and indigenous wisdom.
She's then joined by Bhavya Chauhan, founder of HAVN, and Belabbes Benkredda, who is building a venture focused on the health of public spheres. Bhavya shares how she used vibe coding with Cursor and Claude to build and test an MVP, and how HAVN moved from prototype to piloting. Belabbes lays out his theory of a "fourth wave" of AI-driven public spheres. Both founders weigh the promise and the risks of AI, and return to one idea: technology should strengthen human relationships, not replace them.
Chapters:
00:00 How social entrepreneurship has evolved
08:36 Meet the founders: Bhavya Chauhan and Belabbes Benkredda
10:06 The promise of AI for founders
15:13 The fourth wave of public spheres
21:04 The idea behind HAVN
23:35 What is vibe coding? (Cursor and Claude)
27:33 From MVP to piloting
33:05 Why AI should strengthen human ties
What you'll learn:
- How social entrepreneurship is moving from solo founders to collective action and movements
- Why indigenous wisdom and non-extractive models matter for social innovation
- How non-technical founders use vibe coding with Cursor and Claude to build an MVP
- How HAVN went from prototype to stakeholder testing and piloting
- Why AI should strengthen human relationships, not replace them