#25 - Mission Driven: Bringing Solar Power to 1M People in Africa

My First Million

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Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

He's not on a mission to make money, quite the opposite. Xavier Helgesen is a mission driven founder, who uses money to do more good in the world. His first company, Better World Books sells 10 million used books a year that's collected by leftover books at libraries - in and shares revenues with literacy partners (Over $25M given to non-profits). This business lead him to Africa, where he noticed 20,000 people in a village had no electricity - so he decided to change that. He created Zola Electric, the largest solar power company in Africa, providing 1 million people with electricity per day. He talks to us about how he turned his college side hustle into a $70M biz, moving next to his customers in Tanzania, selling electricity to people who never used electricity and how ‘Mutual Improvement Societies’ could help you 10x your life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got.
0:04.9	I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
0:07.8	And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money
0:12.7	using things that you already have.
0:15.1	Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple.
0:19.6	It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm going to tell you about in a second, but he has
0:23.3	this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this
0:26.9	book.
0:27.9	It's called How to Make Money With What You Already Have.
0:29.4	It's an incredible episode.
0:30.9	It talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book.
0:33.2	The host is Donald Miller.
0:34.7	I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this
0:37.9	is totally by coincidence.
0:38.9	There was all separate people.
0:40.2	They said you have to check out Donald Miller.
0:42.0	He's amazing.
0:43.0	So I'm happy that he's part of Howspot's Podcast Network.
0:45.5	You can check it out.
0:46.5	Business Made Simple Podcast.
0:47.9	It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane where the cockpit
0:52.1	is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left
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