Jessica Jackley. (2015). Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least. Random House Publishing Group.

Jessica Jackley. 2015. Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration From Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most With the Least. Random House Publishing Group.

Jessica Jackley, Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration From Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most With the Least. Random House Publishing Group, 2015.

Jessica Jackley. Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration From Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most With the Least. Random House Publishing Group, 2015.

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   • bioText: Jessica Jackley is an award-winning social entrepreneur focused on financial inclusion, the sharing economy, and social justice. She is best known as a co-founder of Kiva, the world’s first and largest P2P microlending website. She also co-founded ProFounder, a pioneering crowdfunding platform for U.S. entrepreneurs, and Kin & Co., a consultancy helping organizations support women and working families. She is an investor and advisor with Collaborative Fund, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. An active board member for several nonprofit organizations including Habitat for Humanity, Jackley holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a certificate in Global Leadership and Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA from Bucknell University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three sons.
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In the tradition of Kabul Beauty School and Start Something That Matters comes an inspiring story of social entrepreneurship from the co-founder of Kiva, the first online microlending platform for the working poor. Featuring lessons learned from successful businesses in the world’s poorest countries, Jessica Jackley’s Clay Water Brick will motivate readers to more deeply appreciate the incredible entrepreneurial potential that exists in every human being on this planet—especially themselves.
“The heart of entrepreneurship is never about what we have. It’s about what we do.”
 
Meet Patrick, who had next to nothing and started a thriving business using just the ground beneath his feet . . .
 
Blessing, who built her shop right in the middle of the road, refusing to take the chance that her customers might pass her by . . .
 
Constance, who cornered the banana market in her African village with her big personality and sense of mission.
 
Patrick, Blessing, Constance, and many others are among the poorest of the world’s poor. And yet they each had crucial lessons to teach Jessica Jackley—lessons about resilience, creativity, perseverance, and, above all, entrepreneurship.
 
For as long as she could remember, Jackley, the co-founder of the revolutionary microlending site Kiva, had a singular and urgent ambition: to help alleviate global poverty. While in her twenties, she set off for Africa to finally meet the people she had long dreamed of helping. The insights of those she met changed her understanding. Today she believes that many of the most inspiring entrepreneurs in the world are not focused on high-tech ventures or making a lot of money; instead, they wake up every day and build better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities, regardless of the things they lack or the obstacles they encounter. As Jackley puts it, “The greatest entrepreneurs succeed not because of what they possess but because of what they are determined to do.”
 
In Clay Water Brick, Jackley challenges readers to embrace entrepreneurship as a powerful force for change in the world. She shares her own story of founding Kiva with little more than a laptop and a dream, and the stories and the lessons she has learned from those across the globe who are doing the most with the least.
 
Praise for Clay Water Brick
 
“Jessica Jackley didn’t wait for permission to change the world—she just did it. It turns out that you can too.”—Seth Godin, author of What to Do When It’s Your Turn
 
“Fascinating . . . gripping . . . bursting with lessons . . . Jessica Jackley has written a remarkable book . . . so thoroughly well meaning and engagingly put it is too magnetic to put down.”—Financial Times
“Clay Water Brick is a tremendously inspiring read. Jessica Jackley, the virtuoso co-founder of the revolutionary microlending platform Kiva, shares uplifting stories and compelling lessons on entrepreneurship, resilience, and character.”—Adam Grant, author of Give and Take
 
“A blueprint for anyone who wants to make the world a better place and find fulfillment in the process, no matter how scarce their resources or how steep the challenge.”—Arianna Huffington

“This book is inspirational. And honest and practical. . . . Well written, thoughtful: a selfless...

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   • source: Seth Godin, author of What to Do When It's Your Turn
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   • source: Financial Times
   • content: "Fascinating . . . gripping . . . bursting with lessons . . . Jessica Jackley has written a remarkable book . . . so thoroughly well meaning and engagingly put it is too magnetic to put down."
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   • source: Arianna Huffington
   • content: "Clay Water Brick is a tremendously inspiring read. Jessica Jackley, the virtuoso co-founder of the revolutionary microlending platform Kiva, shares uplifting stories and compelling lessons on entrepreneurship, resilience, and character."--Adam Grant, author of Give and Take "With only a dream and a lot of determination, Jessica Jackley founded Kiva, an organization that has empowered millions of people around the world. Clay Water Brick is the inspiring story of her own far-flung journeys as an entrepreneur, but it's also a blueprint for anyone who wants to make the world a better place and find fulfillment in the process, no matter how scarce their resources or how steep the challenge."
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   • source: Booklist
   • content: "This book is inspirational. And honest and practical. . . . Well written, thoughtful: a selfless account of how to succeed by doing right and following your heart."
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   • source: Deborah Rodriguez, author of Kabul Beauty School
   • content: "Inspiring and insightful, Clay Water Brick is a book you simply won't be able to put down. Jessica Jackley has created a timeless read for every aspiring entrepreneur."--Adam Braun, author of The Promise of a Pencil "Capital and abundant resources are not the keys to innovation, and Jessica Jackley proves it. The stories of some of the unlikely entrepreneurs she's met around the world inspire us to see opportunity where before we saw none."--Simon Sinek, author of Start with Why "Jessica Jackley's life story offers an inspirational blueprint for just about anyone who wants to live a more meaningful life--and the good news is that you can start today. Read it. Share it. Discuss it. Clay Water Brick is the guidebook you've been waiting for."
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   • source: Blake Mycoskie, TOMS founder and Chief Shoe Giver, author of Start Something That Matters
   • content: "Clay Water Brick is a moving account of so many previously untold human stories, inviting the reader to think more universally about entrepreneurship and the role of business in driving positive change in the world. Jessica Jackley captures the spirit and the heart of the entrepreneur by sharing her own journey and shining a spotlight on a remarkable group of entrepreneurs from around the world and the perseverance that defines them. This is a powerful read for all, and whether you have an idea you want to pursue, an entrepreneur you can help support, or purely general interest, you will be inspired."
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     April 15, 2015
     A memoir about how the Internet can help in the fight against poverty, from the co-founder of Kiva, "the world's first personal microlending platform." Jackley chronicles how her life was transformed in the fall of 2003 when she heard Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, explain how he was enabling the poor in Bangladesh to free themselves from predatory lenders. Yunus' account of his work turned the notion of poverty "on its head," and his speech provided the author with an exciting new method for thinking about the alleviation of poverty. She understood that the poor are "not weak, helpless people. These were people who were capable, tenacious and resourceful." Jackley went on to co-found Kiva, which enables people to lend small amounts of money, as little as $25, to businesses in countries like Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. The author describes how she began to investigate and define a plan that would lead toward her goal. Hooking up with Brian Lehnen and his Village Enterprise Fund, she traveled to East Africa to survey the fund's grantees and their cultures. In the aftermath of that trip, Jackley designed Kiva to work with existing microlenders, lend money online, and maintain contact through regular updates. As reflected in its mission statement, the company promised "to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty." Less than 10 people got the ball rolling, and their requests for loans were filmed and posted online. An email to friends helped raise funds, and the author's venture quickly grew. Yunus' 2006 Nobel Prize created further interest, which accelerated growth. But it was not all success. In Uganda, they fought against fraudsters and the diversion of funds, and legal and regulatory obstacles doomed her next business, ProFounder. In addition to her own story, Jackley includes folksy business lessons learned from her borrowers-e.g., why the roosters should eat first. A charming account of how "to pursue opportunity and possibility where others see none."

     COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     May 15, 2015
     

     Jackley's captivating memoir tells how she cofounded Kiva, a nonprofit microfinance organization connecting people worldwide, especially those willing to lend small amounts of money, from $25 to potential entrepreneurs in developing countries. Though these entrepreneurs are poor themselves, they have created new businesses even in the most impoverished communities. The loans enable them to take advantage of opportunities and to grow their businesses. Jackley's life story and personal transformation are intertwined with the lives of these innovative individuals. Her firsthand experiences with these strivers teach her lessons that she would have never learned in her formal MBA program. Each of the 14 chapters introduces readers to an individual who had a profound impact on the author's development. These stories are truly inspiring because they show how the subjects created businesses with few resources. VERDICT This enlightening book can be effectively integrated into graduate business, public administration, and human resource studies and will be equally enjoyed by general public library audiences.--Caroline Geck, Camden Street Sch. Lib., Newark, NJ

     Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     July 1, 2015
     This book is inspirational. And honest and practical. It is the personal story of Jackley and her first entrepreneurial venture (the microlending platform Kiva) between the years 2000 and 2014. Her venture started slowly, when Jackley was exposed to the reality of poverty and the not-so-acceptable notion that it would always exist in a world of haves and have-nots. From incidents in high school and college and then at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, every event carried a lesson for her, all leading to living her passion of empowering entrepreneurs. From Kenyan Constance, she learned about the power of a clear and solid identity, whether banana seller or microlender. In the story of CiCi, a San Diego tour guide, she learned the lesson of seeking advice more than moneyas her stint on The Oprah Winfrey Show proved. Well written, thoughtful: a selfless account of how to succeed by doing right and following your heart.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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“The heart of entrepreneurship is never about what we have. It’s about what we do.”
 
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Blessing, who built her shop right in the middle of the road, refusing to take the chance that her customers might pass her by . . .
 
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