Jeff Church (Nika Water) - The Wave of Social Entrepreneurship

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

🗓️ 11 April 2012

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Entrepreneur and successful executive Jeff Church founded Nika Water to create a thriving social enterprise that supports clean water projects in impoverished countries. In this inspiring lecture, Church lays out his motivations for striking out on his own, the challenges of the global water crisis and the essential lessons aspiring entrepreneurs need to learn.

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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.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.3	I am delighted to introduce our guest today.
0:21.6	Jeff's Church is an advocate for social responsibility and for stateability around the world.
0:26.6	He has a long history of founding many companies, but his most recent venture is a social venture called Nika Water that he co-founded three years ago.
0:35.6	And he's going to share some insights today with us
0:38.7	on the coming wave of social entrepreneurship.
0:41.2	Jeff.
0:41.8	Thank you, Tina.
0:43.0	Thank you.
0:44.0	Hello, everyone.
0:47.6	How you doing?
0:48.8	Great.
0:49.8	Awesome.
0:50.8	Awesome.
0:51.8	I want to start with taking you back to my senior year in high school. It's a long time ago.
0:57.0	And I was playing in a football game. It was the seventh game of my senior year. We had lost every single game my junior year.
1:05.0	And we lost the first six games in my senior year. And I was a very mediocre football player on a really lousy team.
1:13.2	And it was late in the game.
1:14.4	In this particular game, I actually had a pretty good game.
1:17.2	I had caught a touchdown pass, and I had caught a couple other passes.
1:20.5	So I was having a pretty good game.
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