Jessica Jackley co-founded Kiva.org back in 2005. Since then, nearly half a million people have used the micro-lending platform to offer money to fellow citizens, almost none of whom will ever meet offline. Jackley’s passion is in empowering entrepreneurs to improve their communities and the world, a charge she’s carried forward into a new venture, Profounder , aimed at helping feisty US-based entrepreneurs with good ideas and a dearth of capital.
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Jessica Jackley on Empowering the World’s Entrepreneurs (Podcast)