Bill Drayton (Ashoka) - A World of Changemakers

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2013

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Ashoka Founder Bill Drayton shares new ideas on how the world can transition to a place where everyone is a contributing change-maker. Drayton also sits down in conversation with Stanford Professor Tina Seelig to discuss critical skills for changemakers, the possibilities for collaborative entrepreneurship, and the importance of giving yourself permission to make change.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	Today our guest is Bill Drayton, who is credited with the rise in interest in social entrepreneurship.
0:24.6	He's done many remarkable things in his life and his best note for his work as a CEO of Ashoka, which was founded in 1980.
0:32.6	Ashoka is the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide with nearly 3,000
0:39.5	Ashoka fellows in 70 countries.
0:42.3	Ashoka has provided startup financing, support services, and connections to a global
0:47.3	network of social entrepreneurs, and he's received many, many awards for his achievements,
0:52.1	including the MacArthur Prize for his work at Ashoka.
0:55.8	Before founding Ashoka, Bill Drayton taught at Stanford Law School. He was at the Harvard Kennedy School.
1:01.6	He was also at the White House working with President Jimmy Carter and was an assistant administrator
1:06.8	at the EPA leading the effort to create the standards for admissions.
1:11.6	Today, Bill will speak for about 20 minutes, and then I'm going to interview him for about 20 minutes,
1:15.6	and then it's up to you. So you guys are going to get 20 minutes to ask questions of Bill Drayton.
1:20.6	Please join me in welcoming our guest.
1:22.6	Thank you.
1:24.6	So it's really a pleasure to be back. Thank you.
1:31.1	So it's really a pleasure to be back.
1:36.7	I have a very ambitious agenda to get through in 20 minutes.
1:41.8	So we all know that we're at a transition moment.
1:42.9	We all sense that. Basically, we're moving from a world that was defined by seeking efficiency and repetition.
1:53.0	And now we're in a world that is not only different, but it's the exact opposite game.
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