Jessica Jackley (Kiva and Untapped Capital) - ‘What If?’ Changes the World

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Jessica Jackley is an entrepreneur and investor best known as the founder of Kiva, the first microfinance crowdfunding platform, with $2 billion in loans since 2005. She is currently a founder and general partner at Untapped Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm championing unexpected founders. In this presentation, Jackley shares her journey to becoming a mission-focused entrepreneur and offers insights to inspire others to ask, “What if things were different?”

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0:00.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought to you by Stanford E.Corp.
0:07.4	Welcome, everyone. This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series at Stanford, a Stanford
0:12.5	seminar for aspiring entrepreneurs. ETL is presented by STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship
0:20.3	Center, and Bases, the Business Association
0:23.1	of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students. I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the management, science,
0:29.0	and engineering department at Stanford, and the director of alchemist and accelerator for
0:33.5	enterprise startups. Today, we are ending the quarter with a bang, with a warrior of social
0:40.9	justice, entrepreneurship, and financial inclusion, who is as impactful as she is upbeat, and that is
0:48.3	none other than Jessica Jackly. Jessica is an entrepreneur and investor best known as the founder of Kiva, which is the first microfinancing crowdfunding platform with $2 billion in loans since 2005.
1:03.4	Jessica is currently a founder and general partner at Untapped Capital, which is an early stage venture capital firm championing unexpected founders.
1:11.6	And previously, Jessica was the founder and CEO of Altruists, which was creating unique
1:16.0	volunteer experiences that can be done from anywhere.
1:19.8	Jessica has a dizzying list of achievements even beyond these.
1:23.7	She served as Walt Disney's Imagineering's inaugural entrepreneur in residence, the chief impact
1:29.5	officer at Aspiration, a venture partner at the Collaborative Fund and Mustard Seed Maze, and
1:35.3	is also an author, the author of Claywater Brick, finding inspiration from entrepreneurs who do the
1:41.1	most with the least, which was published by Penguin Random House.
1:49.9	She's also the founder and CEO Pro Founder, which was acquired by Good in 2010.
1:55.2	Jessica's also a teacher at heart. She's a teacher in social entrepreneurship at the Marshall School of Business at USC, and was previously a visiting practitioner here at the
2:00.2	farm at Stanford Center for
2:01.9	Philanthropy and Civil Society.
2:04.2	And her, she's tons of board experience, including Habitat for Humanity.
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