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The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization
- ▶ 3:31 Susan Rice We had wars break out between Ethiopia and Eritrea, huge war in the Congo, wars in, in West Africa as well, and over the summer, ah, in August, Al-Qaeda attacked our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and killed 12 Americans and over 200…
- ▶ 18:44 Susan Rice The embassies were bombed in Kenya and Tanzania.
Making Culture, Making Influence -- Dapper Dan in Silicon Valley
- ▶ 20:40 Dapper Dan And I get to Kenya.
- ▶ 1:10:57 Ben Horowitz Um, but you kind of took a lesson from what you learned in Africa when you visited Kenya. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks as Emerging Economies (Done Right?)
- ▶ 17:06 Chris Berniske Be they in Kenya, be they in the US, be they in Korea.
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 26:32 Frank Chen Think a dollar, two dollars to first time borrowers in countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria.
a16z Podcast | Fintech for the People
- ▶ 3:51 Angela Strange And now Matt founded a nonprofit that you've probably heard of called Kiva, which used to do microloans in Kenya. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 31:57 Angela Strange Like we'd be living out a massive portion of the population if, uh, if we just decided to go completely cashless, but there are other solutions, you know, Sweden, Kenya within PESA, like it would require a pretty massive infrastructure…
- ▶ 42:17 Alex Rampell Like, you take all these people in Kenya that have never had access to credit, and actually, I think a lot of Americans don't even realize when they use their credit card, every time they use their credit card, they're buying something on…
a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
- ▶ 4:33 Penny Pritzker It's just extraordinary what's going on in places like Ghana and Kenya and, uh, throughout Asia.
a16z Podcast | The Art of the Regulatory Hack
- ▶ 2:46 Sonal Chokshi One of the local accelerators we had on our podcast was a woman who represented iHub in Kenya.
a16z Podcast | Open vs. Closed, Alpha Cities, and the Industries of the Future
- ▶ 0:56 unnamed speaker Yeah, one of the things, you know, that really intrigues us about the topic of your book is we've covered a lot of different countries and experiences and, and, and how each of those regions encounters tech with voices on the ground in…
a16z Podcast | 'In the Eye of a Tornado': Views on Innovation from China
- ▶ 7:51 Clay Shirky The kinds of innovations around e-commerce where people are paying using their mobile phones as with M-Pace in Kenya or have entirely alternate payment systems as with Alipay here, that's a kind of innovation Americans don't even…
- ▶ 16:49 Clay Shirky It's going to be engaged in Kenya and Mexico.
a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
- ▶ 1:25 Sonal Chokshi It's based in Kenya and provides a physical space for connecting entrepreneurs, a way to test their ideas, provide info to them and much more.
- ▶ 2:41 Nanjira Sambuli So, you know, if you get your business working in South Africa, the model will work in Kenya, Nigeria. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:21 Sonal Chokshi M-Pesa as in the, the company that came out of, the payment system that came out of Kenya, um, and it's basically mobile payments.
- ▶ 14:10 Nanjira Sambuli So what we found, and it's really mostly studies that we do, user experience studies, just better understanding the target user for any, a mobile phone application or service, is that, you know, these are very, um, and especially in a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:56 Alan Knott Craig You know, if you're living in, in, in South Africa or Nigeria or Kenya or Zimbabwe or any, any part of Africa, actually any part of the world come to think of it.
- ▶ 38:14 Nanjira Sambuli So Ushahidi has a team that works from the U.S., a team that works from Kenya, and a team that works from other countries, and that's how they've been able to co-opt that expertise that's ready, uh, ready in the market in the U.S., for… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 40:28 Eileen Burbage You know, like you look at M-Pesa in Kenya, or you look at what's happened in India, they've had a hundred and ninety million people open up bank accounts in the last four years, but those aren't bank accounts like we get at Wells Fargo,
a16z Podcast | Connecting People with Digital Work, the Gig Economy, and More
- ▶ 28:19 Laila Janah In the U.S., um, and now in Kenya, we have a second program called Sama School, which trains people to get jobs in the digital economy beyond those that we hire for in SamaSource, so it's a much broader pool of people that we're targeting…
- ▶ 35:32 Laila Janah I think it can be difficult for outsiders to come in, you know, especially when I think about communities like, like Mathare, one of the, the informal urban settlements we work with in Kenya, where people have seen NGO after NGO, and…
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
- ▶ 29:02 Chris Schroeder A need at a specific time that allowed it to become the largest payment mechanism in texting specifically in Kenya and not around the world.
a16z Podcast | Bitcoin's Growing Pains -- and Possibilities
- ▶ 18:38 Mike Hearn I think if, if you look at the debate around M-Pesa, for example, in Kenya, um, it's been hugely successful there, you know, mobile money in Kenya has been massively successful. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Enough with the Old Stuff -- Time for New Questions in Mobile
- ▶ 31:07 Benedict Evans But even, you know, even in Kenya or South Africa or Myanmar or, you know, impoverished parts of India or Indonesia and so on, huge numbers of people have mobile phones. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technology and the Opening of Myanmar
- ▶ 19:28 Ethan Zuckerman Um, and the iHub, um, was put together sort of as the home office and then sort of public events space, um, for a company called Ushahidi, uh, which is a Kenyan open source software company that I, I chair the board of. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
- ▶ 38:53 Laura Duke What we're really getting to is now is saying, this is coming from this maker, and, you know, it's a small organization in Kenya that is going to be making this shirt, and that is what you're going to get.
a16z Podcast | Sports, Tech, and What We Can All Learn from the Latest Performance Science
- ▶ 7:52 unnamed speaker But then, then flipping back to genetics, the two, two winners of the New York marathon this year, again, were Kenyan.
Nature as Technology
- ▶ 10:00 unnamed speaker If we relax this idea of perishability, we can open up access to new markets, whether it's smallholder farmers in a remote region of Kenya that may not have access to a city center where someone's gonna be willing to pay them for what…
The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services
- ▶ 16:59 Angela Strange Over the course of 10 years, it amassed thirty million users and the population in Kenya is fifty million. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:01 Angela Strange Take Branch, the lending company in Kenya.
The Future of Money: Banking on Fintech
- ▶ 9:55 Alex Rampell Where, ah, they do lending in Sub-Saharan Africa in Kenya, Tanzania, and also Nigeria.