Scott Harrison (charity: water) - Thirsting for a Life of Service

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

🗓️ 6 November 2013

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Scott Harrison, founder and CEO of charity: water, shares his entrepreneurial path from a life of pure self-interest to one driven by a desire to bring clean water to millions. In this compelling talk, Harrison shares his interest and approach in re-inventing the charity sector, along with the powerful stories of those affected by his organization's work.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eCORner.standford.edu.
0:16.0	I can't begin to tell you how excited I am to be able to announce our speaker for tonight.
0:23.6	How many of you had a chance to go and check out Scott's bio? Most of you, right? The rest
0:28.6	of you Google him and you're going to be totally impressed. I'm not going to spend time reading from his bio.
0:33.6	I just want to tell you two fun facts about Scott, besides the fact that he's a co-founder and CEO of Charity Water.
0:40.6	He got up at 5 a.m. today at your home in Tribeca, right?
0:44.6	Went to JFK to fly.
0:47.2	It was his 81st flight of the year.
0:50.7	How many of you have flown more than 80 flights this year?
1:02.0	More than 70, more than 60, more than 50, more than 40, more than 30? Shit, I'm going to stop.
1:04.0	I hear learning.
1:05.0	There, okay.
1:06.0	This guy is a global world warrior in pursuit of a great cause.
1:09.0	The other fun fact is, how many of you have ever eaten at subway?
1:13.1	I was there today. Well, back in the day, but when Jared was not always the only spokesperson,
1:19.9	they used to do commercials with everyday people. And it turns out that almost 20 years ago,
1:26.8	Scott was the star in one of these commercials, and he had
1:30.7	to kiss his ex-girlfriend because the agents didn't bother to tell the shooting crew that they
1:35.8	had broken up. Who knew? With that, let's welcome Scott. No one knows that. Welcome, Scott. Welcome,
1:41.1	welcome. We were trying to make that intro unique. So, yeah,
1:49.6	that was a failed actor at one point. And so was my girlfriend at the time. And our agent had sent us
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