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“Now we have the largest data set in the history of the world of real time flow through our sensors for rural water systems.”

“And we put this thing out and it crushes it. I think 17% of the people that watch the video convert to subscribers.”

“We recently had the government of Ghana Take our sensors and put them on government wells. What's exciting about that is Charity Water has never worked in the country of Ghana. We don't have a single well in Ghana”

“In Africa alone, 25% of the projects are broken right now. 25%.”

“We've installed 8000 of these. We currently are monitoring the largest data set in the history of the world when it comes to rural water supply, mainly because no one ever bothered to do this before.”

“USA Today poll, found 42% of Americans just flat out said, distrustful of charities. 70% of Americans in a more recent poll said they believe charities waste their money.”

“Michael and Xochitl have been very generous. They've given over twenty million dollars. They've come and come to 14 or 15 countries with me now, bringing their kids all over the world to see the impact that they've made.”

“We're now a 129 Families fund all the overhead, and it's people that I'm sure you've had on here. It's been Jack Dorsey, and Sean Parker, and Johnny Ive, and Angela Aarons, and Matt Mullenweg, and Daniel Eck, and it's been a lot of John Doerr, venture capitali…”

“Last year we grew 37%. This year we're gonna grow another 35%. We think we're gonna do over seventy million dollars this year. Help almost one and a half million people get clean water.”

“So, as of right now, we are down to seven hundred and three million people living on Earth without access to clean water.”

“Our impact is now up to over 17 and a half million people with access to clean water across about a 137,000 communities around the world.”

“A hundred percent of public donations go directly to the field to provide people clean water, and then in this separately audited bank account, about a 130 families pay the overhead.”

“So we get to this point about a year and a half in, where we raised a couple million dollars, and the game was up. There was a moment when there was a 111 dollars in the bank account for overhead.”

“Three days later, I get an email from him saying, hey, it was great meeting you. I wired a million dollars into your overhead account. So we go from insolvent to a year in funding.”

“You know, that was a third of a billion dollars ago.”

“I launched Charity Water in a nightclub on my birthday. It was my 31st birthday, and the only idea I had to officially launch was to get a bunch of people in a club, give them open bar, and ask them for 20 bucks on the way in as a donation. And we raised 15,00…”

“We had a guy listened to Nickelback for an entire week with headphones on, raised 30,000 dollars.”

“A well that somebody sponsors for 12,000 dollars can pump a million liters. I mean, a million liters every year.”

“I got a gallery donated in Chelsea. I got a bunch of, you know printers to donate, you know, high res giant photographs. And I put together a 108 of my before and afters in a gallery. And I invited everybody from the clubs to come in and we raised about a 100,…”

“We're in year 17, just started year 17. We've raised seven hundred and fifty million dollars and we've helped 16.8 million people get clean water.”

“Today we have a 131 entrepreneurs and families that pay all the overhead.”

“And I think last year was, it's 40 dollars to give one person clean water. On average, we work across 22 countries. I think last year's actual was 39 67.”

“The birthday idea raised over a hundred million dollars by getting over a million people involved just in that simple idea.”

“We have an amazing subscription community called the spring which is that has really helped the organization triple over the last five years.”

“So we get to this point about a year and a half in where we raised a couple million dollars and the game was up. There was a moment when there was a 111 dollars in the bank account for overhead.”

“They have made it possible for over a million donors now to have a pure play.”

“It was the most popular video we had ever done in the history of Charity Water at that point, because as you said, it was authentic, and it doesn't always go right.”

“The well, those 129 families, were actually repeatable. They were giving on three-year terms and renewing it at 80% plus rate because we could build a relationship with them.”

“15,000 people on my club email list, and open rates were almost a hundred percent back then.”

“So that first year I took 50,000 photos, and I was just blast, I was assaulting my club email list every few days, every week, with a new story, a new before and after set.”

“And I became really good at throwing parties at the high end, selling thousand dollar bottles of Cristal, selling 25 dollar vodka Red Bulls that cost us 25 cents, and creating spaces for movie stars and actors and musicians and, you know, fashion moguls and de…”

“Well, maybe no surprise, I was denied by the first 10 organizations. You know, it turns out that the Red Cross is not looking for a nightclub promoter. Doctors Without Borders are, they're looking for credible doctors, not, you know, DJs or promoters.”