Good afternoon everyone
I wanted to start counting a small
history once upon a time territory
rich in natural resources with people
hardworking they started to assemble their
companies but they lacked those leaders
to take them to the next level
it was then that the church of the
hands of those in the hands of
Jesuits set up a university to
train those leaders in matters of
business and economics companies
they grew they brought wealth and they brought
employment much prosperity to the region not
only entrepreneurs were those who
were left here are more who did
the suitcases and they went to land
distant
away from what they most wanted in search of
of a better future and we are seeing
also here on this earth is for
these generations
notwithstanding all civilizations
they reach the period of may that
decline in Europe and in the world the country
Basque is no longer as relevant as it was
before
in fact in Spain we are no longer the
Autonomous community that has a GDP per capita
highest capita exceeded in 2015 in
madrid and a detail that to me
Surprise is the level of entrepreneurship
in the global entrepreneurship monitor
we are in the queue of entrepreneurship
both in Europe and in Spain and
knowing where we come from our
adn
it surprises me a lot and good and it’s the
first you have to recognize when
started here to study at home not
I thought about starting a company and
undertake
I dreamed of being a great banker of
investment in the third year that I was
working on doing a master’s degree in
london was my dream was the following
step on that ladder was
getting it but it’s a part
from me I was not happy with that
little with that master who came to a
part of me that told me that if I
I was going to be stuck in a
life that does not correspond to me in a
life that was not going to be the best version
of myself
in the middle of that conflict
an opportunity appears my way
I went with imagine creativity zentrum to
silicon valley for a month to see why
is the mecca of innovation and
entrepreneurship of these companies as
google there is bío the university of
stanford world entrepreneur and investor will
it opened my head like those people
I fought hard for the opportunities I saw
to failure as one more stage of the
learning and he believed that changing the
world was possible I could not hit
frontally with that mentality that
came from those hard years of crisis
where we said enough that we have
work that there was a victimhood and a
conformism that in that day to day that
I weighed my ma jin and silicon valley
they gave me back the dreams he made me
go back in time and behave
as a child believe that everything was possible
and it was hard for me to admit that what
I had been motivating each of my
steps in my life until then
had been is eager to prove to me
me and mine that could be
among the best and what I realized
that I had to motivate my movements and
decisions should be that love that
passion
I already knew what it was to me
She was happy all know inside
from us we began to search and to me
It made me happy to help others
create a world with more opportunities
for this moment I had always
cut my dreams not
in fact when you hear from the of the
the dbs who are the referents
rare macair company that is someone from
social issues not then me that
try for a year because if of
done we hope that we will live 100
years
my grandma said they met them three years ago
weeks that is one of the things that you
it hurts to live outside and have those
so special moments that you will live
100 years destine 1 percent of that
one year time doing something you
passionate not and that’s why I wanted to do
that volunteering to see if really
the social issue is that it filled me or
it was something that I had idealized as the
issue of investment banking and being in
silicon valley
I met one of the most organizations
Heras on innovation and finance issues
striking is the largest platform
declared fanny for microfinance
any of you can get in
the platform to make a loan of
25 dollars to an entrepreneur in a country
developed can be a farmer in
Colombia to buy a cow can be
a bitch remote area where they do not have
electricity buy a solar panel in
Indonesia
If all goes well and the TAV project
King is profitable that returns the money
which is still borrowed at 0% of
said interest happens in 97 per
one hundred of the cases
and I love the transparency that
they were giving the finances and how the
vain humanized and had a volunteer
for what could be his eyes and his
hands on the ground said this is for me
Volunteer in different countries
different languages and see if what
it turns out with me and see and understand better
what is happening because in the end and
this is a bubble, and when I
I told my parents that I
agreement that was very hard because what
first they told me it was not being
breaking the schemes
among them were have some schemes
a plane and so far is doing it
great not that plan and and it was very hard not
see how what you want most is opposed to
something in which you believe so much not
however, my ma jin reminded me that
if you have a dream
you have to go for it and that nothing
nobody can stop you
remembering after the experience was
hard but comfort to be able to understand what
what’s happening you have to live like
them physical problems I broke the
ankle in el salvador in in all I was
two weeks admitted to the hospital not
They know what happens to my body be
repatriated and in fact a friend out
murdered in El Salvador at times
really hard and in fact my parents do not
they were lying that in fact it is the
my mother’s birthday
today congratulations they did not lie they had all
the reason in those slumps I was going to see
what they did not see was those those
positive sides that there was what happy
that made me the Berlin impact
that we were that was getting
through this project this work
that I was doing in the field
It was fascinating because you learn about the world
but you learn a lot about everything from you
same
what is valued is important is
what do you value in life that is
important to you as you face
extreme situations like the network
relativize and something that with much affection
treasure is how do you change the way you
the one that you see the world and I explain it with a
example and in school I had I had a
Couple of bad experiences with people
immigrant who was robbed
in fact in the area where he lived is
a lot of nightlife and there were many
discos where there was always some
type of conflict there were many
Latin nightclubs had a bad
experience with them and in fact the
envy and the and the press did not help today
with all that witch that is created around
the first country I went to was the
salvador el salvador is the second country
in deaths per capita of murders per
capita in the world is a country
extremely violent
life is very cheap and and people how
wants to give a better life to their families
escape from that reality try to emigrate
to leave behind what you most want for
fight for a better world for your
family
when I went I saw that people gave me
all he had
they had a one capacity one
generosity and an ability to feel in
house like anywhere else seen
now when I remember those
thoughts that I have to have to
He had in the past that made approach
decisions that Mr. Champs is
taking in the united states
I feel a deep shame of me
other experiences can be for
example in Peru with different chains
agricultural is not what people work
what little the textile chain perceives
even in Ghana wins is the
biggest technological dumpster here
they are treated inadequately that he sent
many materials and causing great
great diseases to all
bordering areas be in these
environments
makes you aware of the situation
of others and to put themselves in their
shoes
and I realized that by supporting them
asia than in bringing that better version
version of myself that I was
looking for that is the version of myself
He made me go also see him
they offered to work with them
just four years ago and already form
part of the staff where he has been with
they preach from over 30 countries
living in six different countries and of
done last where I moved two years ago
years that our center is
go back to where everything started for me
this trip to silicon valley in
California
it’s funny because after about
months I realized that it was more
complicated to make friends there and had
good friends but in your environment it ‘s like
try to meet someone make an appointment
for a couple of weeks and diego
appointment because it is that they demanded a
invitation to your calendar they said hour
of the beginning of the end and when the
time of the end of the shock was going not what
they do and everyone left scared
of the house
and that’s where everything happens very, very fast
you are in the mecca of entrepreneurship
people are for a reason and it is the
work and his professional career
there the average life of an employee the
half life while being half in
a company like amazon or like google is
about a year
then you can not afford to be
half gas
you have to give everything and in that give it
everything to prioritize other parts of your
life as relationships can be
friendships not often heard
my friends say is not that a friend is
a person with whom you share a
activity and sometimes what the
people is to use relationships with a
in a transactional way not and I
I want to this goal these are going to
help get there is very curious
I was talking to a friend of mine with Javier
I have the impression that the years
thirty seconds you’re talking to
someone seems to be making a
X-ray to see if it ‘s interesting
you can support to get where they want
go to the family
many of them only return once a
home a day of thanksgiving and
let’s not talk about relationships because
It’s very complicated about the subject of
have appointments there or if this works with
the apps is all first step second
step experts say that in 2050 we
we can marry robots to improve well
it is easier to reach the silicon valley
and it also has a somewhat
truculent
there is a lot of pressure and among the best
is close to your success and that makes
there are people who do not reach it
problems to get there and and it’s over
with depression problems is a
system that prevails is a success
quick those who put that gas in
that mentality are the capital funds
risk those who are called vice if they
are the ones looking for the following
unicorns or with these companies that
they have a high growth and they remain
give high profitability
your system that rewards quick success
instead of a sustainable success that in
if it goes well they are going to
enrich a few hands instead of
All society
in that environment of unicorns that has
been criticizing very recently for
example facebook was said that in the
last elections have published
false news or the case of huber
I change many scandals of harassment
sexual because in fact the sixth 60%
of women in silicon valley say
who have suffered sexual harassment
and that silicon valley is based on this
venture capital environment over a
premise and it’s growth is good and
the growth is unlimited
then how much more growth is going to
be better to grow and grow and with more
create that loop to me that reminds me
one thing to cancer and certain effects of
cancer are already beginning to see
we can see that it ‘s san francisco in the
city of united states where the
inequality is growing
fast according to the world bank
the level of inequality is at
height of guatemala is prohibitive to live
in this city the last ten years
has tripled by three the income of
the boxes 3 thousand 500 dollars that costs
rent a small studio from a
room
there are many people who can not follow that
rhythm and silicon valley for winners
the orders of unai certain in more than
no place but how do you stay behind
just look at the sides and after giving
account that this only the problem to the
young and many of you have
gone to san francisco
It is something that does not leave you indifferent not
that babies in many places
when we talk about how we could
to invest
What is the problem which is the
priority of which we should work
the next years
many people talk about health education
of technology because even to improve
the rest
I think there is one that if we do it
it’s going to make all the rest change
each of those areas
that he considered to be the values and the
empathy politicians steal and thus
if they behaved with those values to
who would vote to tramp or do we see so
far we have this migration crisis
that we have in europe
if we had value and sympathy we are
in an environment where you are changing
at breakneck speed
we can not say we’re good
citizens
if we just comply with the rules
it is complicated that governments and the
legislative system move to such
speed
that’s why we can not lose
time and work on our values
and empathy not like how to do it
considered that the issue of
travel and volunteer to get out of
your reality and I think it’s fundamental
start with the smallest of
instill those values and that empathy
in fact we have an initiative where
It fascinated us what we do is to support
small schools and classes here
they create their own banks them with the
money they make for raffles and sell
bracelets or cookies put the money
in common and can use it to
lend to an entrepreneur in another country
so that they are learning from
finance and learn by reading every story
and what happens in each country taking
that decision of what is it
going
I also think that technology can
be a very strong ally in this if you
use in the right way
for example, virtual reality was
recently at a tom shop in
austin texas and you could see you could
some virtual reality glasses and you could
see what was the project that we are
supporting in a way that despite those to
thousands of kilometers away it
approached and you can see it as if
you were there traveling a lot you give
realize how big the world is and
everything that is happening out there and
you appreciate that diversity but also you
you realize what you have at home and what
what a proud
it has made me feel what more
resonate with me are these Basque values
of which spoke a beginning and that makes
that we are where we are today that value
of the work of honesty the value
of commitment to responsibility
we have the responsibility to do that
world that we need and not in which
we are and I do not know what is the solution
I think there are certain green shoots but
corresponds to you students to
design what is the future we want
to have
the change is the only permanent thing is
at a vertigo speed like what
let’s face it , it will define us as
people and as a society and in my
opinion the best starting point is
look for what is your passion that is
what will get us out of bed with a
smile every day
thank you very much
the laws
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