Rebeca Hwang (YouNoodle), Elizabeth Samara-Rubio (StorWatts) - Small Acts and Big Impacts

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

🗓️ 2 May 2012

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This special lecture offers insights from two leaders creating impact through entrepreneurship. Founder Elizabeth Samara-Rubio explains how her company, StorWatts, aims to provide distributed energy storage to millions around the world, while YouNoodle entrepreneur Rebeca Hwang tells stories of her early field experiences which formed her passion for social entrepreneurship.

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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.
0:18.5	Let's welcome.
0:19.4	Thank you.
0:21.6	Thank you.
0:23.6	Thank you.
0:25.6	Well, good afternoon.
0:28.6	It's been a pleasure to know Tom for so long, and thank you very much for interesting.
0:33.6	It allows people to use your imagination what that means.
0:36.6	I think you'll find a little bit about what that means today in my presentation and
0:41.3	Q&A session.
0:42.3	So allow me to tell you about energy to grow.
0:46.3	So ever, in terms of an entrepreneurial experience and one that has deep personal meaning,
0:53.3	you have to hit the rewind button and
0:56.5	figure out where did it all start. And I'll be very honest, it started very early. When I was
1:04.3	nine years old, my family took us back to Colombia for a visit. And we were able to visit a national monument called the Paraiso.
1:14.6	And after our morning tour, we were taken to the patio deck for lunch.
1:19.6	And as we were seated and waited for our lunch, we chichatted.
1:24.6	And then our lunch was served.
1:25.6	It was Sancocho.
1:26.6	And if anyone knows what Sancocho is, I want to talk to was served. It was Sancocho. And if anyone knows what San
1:27.8	Cocho is, I want to talk to you afterwards. It's a traditional stew. As it was served,
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