Big Ideas
In this interview, Jessica Jackley tells us the story of founding of Kiva. Kiva is a p2p lending platform that helps underprivileged entrepreneurs in developing world through micro loans from common people like you and I.
Kiva has enabled over 1 Billion $+ of lending on it’s platform so far and is constantly growing.
- What is Entrepreneurship in it’s truest sense?
- How Jessica got the idea of Kiva
- How Jessica and her co-founder funded the early stages of the company
- Why the co-founders got told by 20+ lawyers to not go forward with their idea and what Jessica did about that
- How Kiva stayed true to it’s mission and values by turning down $10 million from a corporate social responsibility group in early days.