{"id":15610,"date":"2014-10-20T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=15610"},"modified":"2015-12-03T20:05:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T03:05:20","slug":"mexico-series-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/mexico-series-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"What the !#$% Just Happened in Mexico?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is first of\u00a0a series<\/a> documenting entrepreneurship in Mexico and the companies who participated in the inaugural Unreasonable Mexico<\/a> program.<\/em><\/p>\n

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At the moment, social and economic status<\/strong> remain subject to zip code in Mexico\u2014what some might call a zip-code reality. In a country that the richest man in the world calls home but still has 53.5 percent<\/a> of its population living in poverty\u2014almost one out of seven<\/a> Mexicans living in extreme poverty\u2014the challenges entrepreneurs are trying to solve are no longer just important, but urgent.<\/p>\n

So what the &*#% is\u00a0happening in Mexico? Rarely does the word \u201ctransparency\u201d come to mind when someone mentions Mexico, but after five weeks at the first Unreasonable Mexico Institute\u2014what we like to call Instituto Irrazonable<\/em>\u2014it\u2019s impossible to hide the simple fact that we are seeing an amazing movement take shape. And it\u2019s being fueled by entrepreneurs. One month after we hosted 19 Unreasonable entrepreneurs solving problems ranging from access to clean water in rural areas, health, and education to traffic and smog, we can say that the zip-code reality is changing. And this is that change\u2014and I mean that real, long-lasting, reshaping-countries change\u2014that can only be done by entrepreneurs who not only dare to dream of a different world, and act and build it.<\/p>\n

The challenges entrepreneurs are trying to solve are no longer just important, but urgent<\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A couple examples:<\/p>\n

Fermin Reygadas, co-founder and executive director of C\u00e1ntaro Azul<\/a>, is one of those entrepreneurs solving Mexico\u2019s toughest problems in accessible drinking water. It is not unusual to see houses with pools in their backyards less than a mile away from houses that don\u2019t have water draining systems or even access to clean water. That is just a zip code of distance, but it represents at least a 70-year development gap between rich and poor. Ferm\u00edn uses a franchising model that employs local women to bring clean drinking water to rural communities. In the next 5 years he is looking to scale from 10,000 current beneficiaries to one million with Montse Mora, director of the impact investment fund called Spectron, and other Unreasonable mentors.<\/p>\n

High interest rates plague 80 percent of Mexico\u2019s adult population who are stuck with abusive money lenders that force them to buy products and services 2X or 3X their actual price. Imagine making minimum wage and spending eight days of your salary on one pan to cook breakfast for your kids. How could you afford health services like diabetes treatments or cataracts surgeries? Well, Enrique Bay, founder of Kiwi, is helping those families afford products and services at their actual price through pre-payment plans, training methods, and reminders. This past August, eight people were able to regain their eyesight through his beta platform. During the Institute he worked hand-in-hand working with two M\u00e9xican microfinance pioneers and Arturo Galv\u00e1n\u2014who the Wall Street Journal calls the \u201cApostle of the Internet\u201d for co-founding the company that brought internet to Latin America.<\/p>\n

Entrepreneurs have the opportunity to turn contrasts in Mexico into pages in history books<\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The magic is in the relationships. For instance, Sebastian Garc\u00eda-L\u00f3pez and Nicol\u00e1s Guerrero, founders of Nomad Republic, create volunteer programs for students to serve in rural communities in Mexico and around the world. The two 20-year-old entrepreneurs now have enough capital\u2014thanks to one of the founders of Mexico\u2019s first artificial intelligence company, Ricardo Montes de Oca\u2014to finance their startup operations for two years.<\/p>\n

These meaningful interactions between entrepreneurs, mentors and investors give us a sense of trust\u2014not only hope\u2014that we will have an positive impact on the course of our history. I am speaking on behalf of every person who made this Institute possible\u2014from my teammates (Jose, Luis, Sarita, + 5 amazing people who joined us for the summer) to our entrepreneurs, mentors, friends, investors, girlfriends and parents who have never stopped supporting us\u2014when I say that the Instituto Irrazonable is bringing an entrepreneurial movement to Mexico. Entrepreneurs have the opportunity to turn the contrasts in Mexico into pages in history books\u2014so zip codes will no longer determine the kind of life anyone gets to live.<\/p>\n

Please, check the rest of the Unreasonable Mexico movement in this series and get lost in the magic that is being made by truly incredible human beings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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