I don't know if you've ever watched these post apocalyptic movies where the world
has been taken over by zombies.
And there's one lone survivor and his or her dog and the half the movie,
they're by themselves.
And then they find other survivors and
then the violin start playing in the background and it's wonderful.
It literally felt like that.
It felt like we had found a tribe of
people who got us, who understood us.
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>> It's very difficult when you are an entrepreneur in Africa because
you cannot share experience with others.
Because nobody did what you're trying to do.
What I call the loneliness of the entrepreneur.
>> In a sense, entrepreneurship is like a really, really lonely journey.
>> It's difficult when you feel alone and you want to give up.
>> Sometimes you may be going through something and you think that you
are the only person going through it, and you may not be able to go the next mile.
>> I say it's lonely to be an entrepreneur, but
once you meet these other guys, who feel like a brother,
a sister that you never had >> You're suddenly in his room full of
business leaders and founders, and you suddenly learn because everybody has
the same problem that you thought you only had.
>> First of all, you start sitting with all these other entrepreneurs and
you're like, my goodness, me and my craziness we are not alone.
>> It was amazing that we'd share things and you realize, yeah, I'm struggling too.
And then somebody says, well, I went through this problem maybe a year ago, or
two days ago, six months ago.
>> The Seed Transformation Network is an amazing concept because it's
like stitching together this global fabric of like-minded people.
If all of these people can communicate with each other,
they can interact with each other and form a team.
Then imagine the kind of cumulative impact that it can create.
>> Not only do you find people who want to see you succeed, but
you also see people who are in the same journey and you can encourage each other.
>> And you have these trusted group of people who you can call if you're going
through a struggle, or if there's an issue or if you need some help.
I can pick up the phone and call anybody and say, hey, I need this,
could you help me?
And they would go out of their way to do that.
>> We have pop up network groups actually where people just show up somewhere and
they meet for drinks or something.
So you gain lifelong friends that are on the same journey with you.
>> It's like a family in a sense that people are really trying to help each
other.
There's been some business between each other.
>> We're already seeing huge benefits of the network locally in India.
Collaboration, ideas, sharing resources, having a sounding board of sorts.
And to have that opportunity to expand it beyond just our own country, is a very,
very exciting prospect.
>> Already just from meeting the people today,
I've got three opportunities to partner for business across Africa.
>> Never been to India, but now I must go because of the people we have met.
It just changes everything.
>> 59% of all network companies have done business with each other, and
that is without a doubt what's happening on our network.
Just to give an example, our entire asset and
infrastructure is now insured with one of our Seed colleagues.
>> The transformation means this is going to be better.
And their business is going to scale, it's going to be successful.
Their families are going to benefit, their community is going to benefit,
their country is going to benefit.
Those connections,
that's where I think there's going to be some real interesting results.
>> It's the multiplier effect of the change of leaders which produces growth.
>> Many times people ask me, don't you feel that this person is trying to
replicate your model and do you feel that threat?
I always say, you see the problem is so huge,
you need at least 10,000 people like me to solve this problem.
>> I believe that each of us, deep down, we want to serve humanity.
We want to make the world a better place.
We want to know that our life mattered.
>> There's no way we are not going to succeed.
They are not going to do it alone, we are not going to do it alone, but
we're doing it together.
>> I'll be there.
>> Yes.
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>> The networking ability that Stanford had put together there, an like-minded
entrepreneurs trying to create impact and trying to do things that extra ordinary.
That feeling and that sensation for me again,
as I said, my network is my strength.
>> Something that has stuck with me, it's an African proverb, but
I first heard it at Seed, is,
if you want to walk fast, walk alone, if you want to go far, walk together.
The Seed Transformation Network is a way to walk together.
So join us so we can synergize and grow.
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