Jessica Jackley
I really enjoyed Jessica Jackley's presentation on her company, Kiva.
Her manner of presentation and the subject matter were really great to listen to. I enjoyed that she brought in humor in her speech and discussed some of the troubles she encountered on the way to creating her company. There were a lot of key moments that stuck with me during the talk. I thought her point of view on economics particularly resonated with me, in that she felt that she wanted to help others but saw economics as a selfish industry and not suited to her goals, something that I had felt in the past before. As I'm taking economics, I've been seeing increasingly how economics can be used to help others ethically, which is something Jackley noted in her talk too as she interacted with students at Stanford studying economics.
Jackley's presentation reminded me of Masauko Chipembere's talk in that they were both open to talking about their failures they experienced along the way to their ultimate goals, in Jackley's case, founding Kiva, a company devoted to giving microloans to people around the world. I respect Jackley's willingness to discuss her naïvete in going to Africa without much of a goal and discovering key lessons about the needs of others and how to best address those needs. The structure of Kiva as a whole reassures me greatly about how people can make companies ethically: as Kiva distributes money to those needing microloans so that they can best use said money in the optimal way for them, which may not be directly related to business growth, for example, for networking purposes or helping the well-being of the community. I love that Kiva has enough trust in the people it works with to give them that power to spend that money how they want, and in turn, fosters a relationship between them and Kiva that in some cases, leads them to pay it forward with loaning money to others.
Her manner of presentation and the subject matter were really great to listen to. I enjoyed that she brought in humor in her speech and discussed some of the troubles she encountered on the way to creating her company. There were a lot of key moments that stuck with me during the talk. I thought her point of view on economics particularly resonated with me, in that she felt that she wanted to help others but saw economics as a selfish industry and not suited to her goals, something that I had felt in the past before. As I'm taking economics, I've been seeing increasingly how economics can be used to help others ethically, which is something Jackley noted in her talk too as she interacted with students at Stanford studying economics.
Jackley's presentation reminded me of Masauko Chipembere's talk in that they were both open to talking about their failures they experienced along the way to their ultimate goals, in Jackley's case, founding Kiva, a company devoted to giving microloans to people around the world. I respect Jackley's willingness to discuss her naïvete in going to Africa without much of a goal and discovering key lessons about the needs of others and how to best address those needs. The structure of Kiva as a whole reassures me greatly about how people can make companies ethically: as Kiva distributes money to those needing microloans so that they can best use said money in the optimal way for them, which may not be directly related to business growth, for example, for networking purposes or helping the well-being of the community. I love that Kiva has enough trust in the people it works with to give them that power to spend that money how they want, and in turn, fosters a relationship between them and Kiva that in some cases, leads them to pay it forward with loaning money to others.
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