Stanford E-Corner presents the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series.

On today's episode, we have Lila Jana, the founder and CEO of Sammasource and LXMI.

These ventures focus on reducing poverty by bringing living wage employment to marginalized women and youth.

She's the author of Give Work, Reversing Poverty, One Job at a Time.

Here's Lila.

So you guys are going to have to bear with me because I'm a little bit emotional today.

The first reason is that as I was rounding the corner on Via Ortega,

I rounded the corner on, you know, where Panama and Via Ortega,

or Panama and Campus Drive Connect.

And that's actually the building where I incubated Samasaurus 10 years ago.

This is our 10th anniversary year.

So it's really exciting to be back here.

And sadly, my car hasn't been upgraded much in the last 10 years, which you'll learn as a social entrepreneur.

You get a lot of the moral benefits that regular entrepreneurs don't get, but you don't get a lot of the

cash benefits. So I'll talk to you about that. The second reason that I'm a bit emotional today

is that this is the first talk I've given in two months. I had a series of emergency surgeries

in December. And first world health, access to first world healthcare,

is one of those things that will really make you realize

how lucky we are.

And also, for me, made me reflect a lot on the work that we do

addressing extreme poverty.

We work at Samosource and at Luxmi on the issue of extreme poverty.

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