Meet Divya Yachamaneni, CEO of Naandi Community Water Services, a for-profit social enterprise bringing safe drinking water to rural communities across India. Hear how this mission-led company made a strategic pivot to get the “urban rich” to help subsidize and ultimately scale its impact.
Mar 2023
Creating a clean water supply from the air and sun
On today’s episode of McKinsey on Startups, our guest is Dr. Cody Friesen, the founder and CEO of Source Global, a sustainability-focused startup that is working to help solve the planet’s drinking water scarcity issues. The company’s flagship product is the Source Hydropanel, a ... Show More
30m 14s
Apr 2021
How I Built Resilience: Kara Goldin of Hint
After giving up diet soda, Kara Goldin started adding fresh fruit to her drinking water to make it more fun. This inspired her to create Hint water, a line of unsweetened flavored water beverages that are now available in over 30,000 stores nationwide. Kara shares how sales have ... Show More
21m 19s
Aug 2023
Uniting Philanthropy and Capital Markets with Water.org
<p>Philanthropy and the private sector haven’t always known how to work together. But today, investors are becoming more concerned about social and environmental impact. </p><br><p>Gary White, CEO of the nonprofit Water.org and the asset manager WaterEquity, seized this oppo ... Show More
29m 17s
Mar 2022
Sukhi’s Gourmet Indian Food: Sukhi Singh and Dalbir Singh
<p>With no strategic plan and very little money, Sukhi Singh figured out a way to sell Indian food at scale across the U.S.—but it took her almost 20 years to do it. In the early 1990's, she shuttered her faltering café in Oakland, California and enlisted her husband an ... Show More
1h 1m
<p>Water scarcity brings unique challenges in the path to a more sustainable future. Solving for them will mean both risk and opportunity for governments, corporates, and investors.</p><p><br></p><p>-----Transcript-----</p><p><strong>Jessica Alsford </strong>Obviously, everyone's ... Show More
<p>This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times in partnership with <a href="https://www.rolex.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative</a>, hosted by The Story as a bonus weekly series each Sunday.</p><br><p>Even for countries wi ... Show More
