Y gracias a eso y gracias a ese camino y gracias a la piscina y, sobre todo, gracias a mi madre que fue lo bastante pesada, gracias a Dios, para decirme, tienes que ser independiente. Pues me había convertido en la persona que era.
And Vodafone-- who's heard of M-Pesa ? M-Pesa ? Yeah. I know there's some people here from Africa, and M-Pesa is the mobile banking. And it was born not out of the corporate R&D department or the boardroom, but this kind of crazy idea.
Iím sure many of you here have heard of M-Pesa . M-Pesa is a mobile payments technology in Kenya and what it allows you to do, Gary, if I, I can kind of send you money stored value to your phone, then you can go tell local gas station and send the gas station owner money and he will pull money out of his till, Kenyan shillings and give it to you.
presentar, de entrevistar más bien, a un montón de gente influyente, líderes de opinión. Pesos pesados que, bueno, hay que atreverse, ¿no? Gente muy pesada también.
Something like that. It wasn't until the UK government's aid arm gave a million taxpayers' money that the whole thing was catalyzed and M-Pesa took off. And I would say it's one of the most significant and impactful innovations that there's been in international development.
and water. So many kids are dying of easily treatable infections from just poor hygiene. Vodafone's M-Pesa is not a CSR initiative.
I can't just talk from-- that's empty rhetoric. You already have M-pesa , so that, to say nothing of .
banking services, energy, education, health care, you name it. So this is M-Pesa -- you might have heard about it-- in Kenya, which is a mobile service that enables half the population to send, receive money using their mobile phone without having a bank account.
Pesos pesados que, bueno, hay que atreverse, ¿no? Gente muy pesada también. Gente muy pesada también.
Gente muy pesada también. Gente muy pesada también. En ese sentido, queríamos preguntarte, ¿no?
MIGUEL BOSÉ: A ver. Es que a pesar de que pienso que la vida nos ha cambiado a todos, en la música donde más yo creo que es el planteamiento que tú lo pongas, ¿vale?
Nick Hughes used to work for Vodafone. And Vodafone-- who's heard of M-Pesa ? M-Pesa ? Yeah. I know there's some people here from Africa, and M-Pesa is the mobile banking.
e desbravaram a selva de pedra. Meu pai passou pelos trabalhos mais pesados, minha mãe era costureira na época. E ele empreendeu num formato de negócio, uma startup da época, que era uma casa do Norte,
Tinha um monte de preconceito sobre toda a cultura nordestina. Os adjetivos para a cozinha sertaneja eram pesada, grosseira, pobre, feia, isso era o que se pensava. Primeira coisa que tivemos que construir foi uma linguagem para apresentar para o próprio público local.
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A Jewish girl that sucks cock. Am I allowed to tweet on Pesach? --of his private parts.
It was the first one. Right, by launching m-pesa , Vodafone lifted 200,000 households out of poverty and contributed to gender parity. But what would have the backlash been if Vodafone had not launched m-pesa ?
And I would say it's one of the most significant and impactful innovations that there's been in international development. Most of the Kenyan GDP goes through M-Pesa . Another example, someone you may or may not have heard of.
Come to pass. Since then, we have seen interesting developments. We have seen innovations in mobile money with M-pesa , which is revolutionizing not just African-- how Africans movement. It's revolutionizing the way the whole world does mobile banking and so forth.
And again, the idea of EasyPaisa didn't just come to me. And I went to Kenya to look at M-Pesa . I went to Philippines to look at GCash.
And the barriers to entry for new startups in this space are dropping significantly. There's a company in Kenya called M-Pesa , which I'm sure many of you are familiar with, which doesn't use blockchain. It just leverages a telecom network, which everyone's got a phone.
Premal Shah: Yeah, I think the coolest thing in terms of financial services for the poor; the big game changer is mobile finance. Iím sure many of you here have heard of M-Pesa . M-Pesa is a mobile payments technology in Kenya and what it allows you to do, Gary, if I, I can kind of send you money stored value to your phone, then you can go tell
Itís incredibly promising, in fact, thereís this quote by William Gibson, he talks about the futureís here, itís just not evenly distributed yet. So, the M-Pesa system, you know, we think combined with crowd funding, can really collapse the cost.
Itís incredibly promising, in fact, thereís this quote by William Gibson, he talks about the futureís here, itís just not evenly distributed yet. And weíre also running this pilot in Kenya because of M-Pesa as well.
OK, another question for you. I think you were talking about kosher for Pesach, kosher for Passover items, and you were like, this is mustard.
Entonces, imagínense lo que es la mujer como consumidora, ¿no? Tiene muchísimo poder. A pesar de esas estadísticas, vamos a Silicon Valley, por ejemplo, en donde la mitad de todas las inversiones en venture capital se realizan allí, acá, con mis vecinos en Silicon Valley.
O es para que-- cuántos cansinos hay por el mundo y pesados que se hacen fotos de selfie constantemente por todos los lados,
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Nos tiene que pasar algo para sacar la artillería pesada.
Right, by launching m-pesa , Vodafone lifted 200,000 households out of poverty and contributed to gender parity. But what would have the backlash been if Vodafone had not launched m-pesa ? It would have been nothing.
But you do this not just by giving them a larger share of what's already there, maybe donating a lot to charity, but through innovation and excellence, coming up with new ways to solve social problems like Vodafone with m-pesa . And the beauty of serving society through innovation and excellence, rather than splitting of existing value is that, ultimately, investors will benefit.
And the beauty of serving society through innovation and excellence, rather than splitting of existing value is that, ultimately, investors will benefit. Right, so even though m-pesa was genuinely launched to solve a social problem of financial inclusion, not to make money. Ultimately, Vodafone ended up being able to monetize it and also investors were better off.
Yo considero que sé la mínima parte, a pesar de que ya llevo dos años aprendiendo de ellos.
But all of this changed thanks to what I would view was a purposeful business, and that business is Vodafone. So some of you might know in 2007, Vodafone launched and m-pesa , which is a mobile money service in Kenya. Let me take a few seconds to explain what mobile money is, because we often think it's mobile banking.
And I don't want to just over-extrapolate from one story. But there was a study by some MIT professors which found that within the first seven years of the launch of m-pesa , 200,000 households got lifted out of poverty.
It inspired by the success in East Africa, with M-Pesa and some of the other companies that worked really well in Africa.
So this originally was being used for money transfers, M-Pesa , the virtual money in East Africa, those sorts of things.
experience for people to connect with the work that theyíre doing around the planet. Gary Briggs: Well, you mentioned as you were telling stories about Kenya and M-Pesa is a mobile technology, thereís a lot of technologies that are now helping on distribution, can you talk a little bit about what youíre seeing, whether it be outbound or inbound?
“For them, the acme of oenological excellence began and ended with Manischewitz Elderberry kosher le Pesach. They were preternaturally frugal and refused to ever throw anything
So a purposeful business is not just one that does no harm. It must actively do good, actively create value for society through a relentless commitment to excellence and innovation, like Vodafone launching m-pesa . So purpose is not just a risk management tool to avoid some scandals for mistreatment of workers.
So excellence in the core business is often the best form of service. to financial performance. Indeed, in 2007, when Vodafone launched m-pesa , well, at the time, its main strategic priority was spectrum auctions.
Another one, which many of you may have heard of, is M-Pesa in East Africa, which is a mobile money system connected to the Vodafone system there.
Some of the things that are available now in some countries, I think you've probably heard of M-Pesa in Kenya.
About 70% of Kenyans, rich and poor, use-- it's called-- M-Pesa is what it's called.
Gary Briggs: Yeah. Premal Shah: And itís about 4 years old. 78 percent of the adult population in Kenya uses it, 25 percent of the GDP now flows through this M-Pesa mobile payment system. Itís incredibly promising, in fact, thereís this quote by William Gibson, he talks about the futureís here, itís just not evenly distributed yet.
Demasiados. Uno siempre está en los hombros de los gigantes, como dice la frase. Y debería empezar en realidad con mi familia, o sea, mis padres, han sido siempre ejemplos que me han inspirado muchísimo con la ética de trabajo y a pesar de ser inmigrantes y tener que trabajar muy duro, siempre tuvieron el sueño muy alto.
--o no. Y creo que en ese sentido sí que compartimos esos valores y esa cultura muy similar a pesar de nuestro tamaño.
OK. Ese guión para mí estaba corto, en ese entonces no lo sentí como tan pesado.
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