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Sitoyo Lopokoiyit

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98 total appearances

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TED Talks Daily
A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

We're shy in saying the numbers, but it's over $400 billion of value going through the ecosystem.

TED Talks Daily
A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

Just.

TED Talks Daily
A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

You're so humble, I'm trying to like ... It's 180 million transactions.

TED Talks Daily
A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

In most of our markets, it's between 30 and, to markets like Kenya, it's over 60 percent of the GDP of the country is flowing through the M-Pesa ecosystem.

TED Talks Daily
A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

So it's really transformative in terms of ... Thank you.

TED Talks Daily
A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

and we, in terms of, let's say, just lending, we lend over $50 million a day with NPLs below 3%, which is unheard of anywhere in the world.

TED Talks Daily
A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

Yeah, I think for us, every single day I walk into the office, it's like the first day of...

TED Talks Daily
A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

at work, and I've been in M-PESA for a very, very long time.

TED Talks Daily
A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

And it's because we enter there every single day trying to solve real-life problems.

TED Talks Daily
A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

We look at insights, we innovate around that.

TED Talks Daily
A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

So just imagine, in Kenya today, there's six million visually impaired people and one million people are blind.

TED Talks Daily
A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

Now, how do those people who are excluded get to do financial services with dignity?

TED Talks Daily
A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

And in 2018, we got to work with a fantastic company from South Korea called The Braille Company, and we built the first braille.braille watch for visually impaired people in Kenya.

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A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

And that meant that over a million people now can access financial services with dignity.

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A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

And that DNA of how we create products and services is what we carry on till today.

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A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

So it's about two years ago, we created something called the Hassler Fund in collaboration with government.

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A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

And the government wanted everyone above 18 to have a clean slate.

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A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

And we worked with them, and they removed nine million people from the credit reference bureau and gave them a fresh start.

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A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

to rebuild that credit.

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A story of moral imagination and bold entrepreneurship | Sitoyo Lopokoiyit and Jacqueline Novogratz

And with that, over 20 million Kenyans got back access to financial services from a clean slate.