Jorge Rios (Bridgefy) - Seizing Global Opportunities

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jorge Rios is the founder and CEO of Bridgefy. Bridgefy’s technology helps millions of people around the world use mobile apps without an internet connection, through Bluetooth-based mesh networks for mobile. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Rios shares how his company’s success is rooted in a distinctly international approach to entrepreneurship.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:06.8	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series.
0:10.7	Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.
0:14.4	Welcome YouTube and Stanford communities to this week's Entrepreneurial Thought Leader seminar.
0:23.1	I am, and the ETL series,
0:28.0	as you know, is presented by STVP, the Entrepreneurship Center in Stanford School of Engineering,
0:35.2	and BASIS, the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students. I am Ravi Balani, a lecturer in the management science and engineering department at Stanford and the director of Alchemist and accelerator for enterprise startups. Today, we are thrilled to welcome
0:43.4	Jorge Rios to ETO. Jorge Rios is the founder and CEO of Bridgeify. Bridgeify's technology helps
0:51.2	millions of people use mobile apps without an internet connection through Bluetooth-based mesh networks for mobile.
0:58.8	According to Forbes, after Signal, Bridgify was the most popular app downloaded in Ukraine by Ukrainian civilians during the Ukrainian crisis.
1:08.6	Bridgeify has become the leading app in protest movements and for civilians
1:13.3	in war and war-stricken zones like Myanmar and Hong Kong and almost every area where peer-to-peer
1:19.5	messaging without internet infrastructure or government control is desired. Bridgeify has been
1:24.9	growing exponentially. They've grown almost 3x over the past year alone.
1:29.3	Jorge Rios grew up in Monterey, Mexico and began his career in the public sector, helping
1:33.3	local teenagers develop, fund, and launch entrepreneurial projects through local city government.
1:39.3	His first company was an online food ordering platform in Mexico. And he founded
1:45.5	Bridgify when he observed the need for Mexico City inhabitants to have a more reliable
1:50.5	communication infrastructure in the aftermath of earthquakes. Since Bridgify was founded, its patented
1:57.1	technology has helped more than 8 million people share information without an
2:00.9	internet connection in contexts such as internet shutdowns, natural disasters, rural communities,
2:07.1	underserved schools, and large events. Bridgefyes received the United Nations WSA Award,
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