How business can drive solutions to social problems | Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor

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🗓️ 7 October 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Driven by the belief that businesses can — and should — invest in the communities around them, Intercorp founder and philanthropist Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor has built schools, pharmacies and a literal bridge to better serve Peru's growing middle class. In conversation with TED business curator Corey Hajim, he explores the immense possibility behind private-public partnerships — and his conviction that any individual can step up to create change.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:13.8	Carlos Rodriguez Pestoar has built affordable schools, maternity health care clinics and
0:19.9	infrastructure in Peru, in places that really needed them.
0:24.4	In his Ted 2023 conversation with Ted's business curator, Corey Hagen, the inter-corp founder
0:29.9	talks about how he did it and what we can learn from it after a sponsor message.
0:37.1	So I'm so excited to be here today with Carlos.
0:40.4	He's a leader I really admire because he uses his business acumen to take on big challenges
0:45.9	and he's done so in his home country of Peru and beyond.
0:50.2	He's built a group of schools, affordable schools called ANOVA and they serve 65,000 students.
0:59.3	He also has a chain of maternity health care clinics.
1:04.6	He's taken on infrastructure projects in public private partnerships, among other things.
1:10.6	Now I have to tell you, it's taken me a couple of years to convince Carlos to come speak
1:16.4	with us here at Ted, he's not really a spotlight guy.
1:20.7	You're more likely to find him doing deep research under cover boss style than talking about
1:26.4	his work in the glossy pages of business magazine.
1:29.8	Not that he doesn't deserve to be there, he really does.
1:32.7	And so we're so lucky to have him here with us today to tell us more about what he's
1:37.5	done, how he's done it, and what we can learn from it.
1:40.1	So thanks for being here, Carlos.
1:41.9	Thanks, Corey.
1:42.9	Glad to be here.
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