premal shah – kiva
intro’d to him via Skoll World Forum, though have known of the incredible-ness of Kiva for some time.
here is a film from the opening plenary of the 2013 forum – via this fastcompany post
love image at 4:01 – moving between silos
3:20 – Premal – the power of a correct idea, spreads so quickly that scale happens at a never before pace..
4:45 – Joi – frugal engineering happens in the absence of abundance, living in a frugal society doesn’t mean you’re disadvantaged, it means you’re advantaged in thinking from the perspective of efficiency
5:00 – Premal – so wonderful to see the reverse
Joi – we’re trying to fix things with resources, rather than with understanding
6:20 – as we become more interconnected, .. we become more conscious
Premal – the problems of this world demand – audacious thinking
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here he is at the forum in 2011:
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find/follow Premal here:
perhaps most known as co-founder and president of Kiva:
Premal first began dreaming of “internet microfinance” while working at PayPal, the online payments company. In late 2004, Premal took a 3 month leave from PayPal to develop and test the internet microfinance concept in India. When he returned to Silicon Valley, he met other like-minded dreamers and quit his job at PayPal to help bring the Kiva concept to life and eventually to scale. Kiva today raises over $1 million each week for the working poor in +60 countries and was named a Top 50 Website by TIME Magazine. For his work as a social entrepreneur, Premal was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and selected to FORTUNE magazine’s “Top 40 under 40” list. Premal began his career as a management consultant and graduated from Stanford University.
be you. 