How Esper Is Building the Operating System for Government Policy | Maleka Momand
About this episode
Maleka Momand discusses building software for government and the importance of trust in the GovTech sector.
Maleka Momand, co-founder and CEO of Esper, joins Sophie Buonassisi on GTMnow to break down what it actually takes to build and sell software to government. Esper is the operating system for government policy, serving as the system of record for the regulation and internal policy that shapes daily life, from NYPD procedures to nurse practitioner licensing in rural Tennessee. Maleka shares hard-won lessons from 8 years in GovTech: why winning trust matters more than winning business, why prof...
People in this episode
Host: Sophie Buonassisi
Guest: Maleka Momand
Topics covered
- GovTech
- government policy
- software development
- trust in business
- regulation
- internal policy
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Esper, NYPD
Places: Tennessee, New York
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