The Funding Gap in Start-up Investing | Temie Giwa-Tubosun | TED

翻译人员: yunge bai 校对人员: Yan Li Xiao

If I asked you to guess which country in the world

如果我让你猜世界上哪个国家

has the highest number of female entrepreneurs,

有最多的女企业家的话，

which country would you guess?

你会怎么回答？

Don't worry. I'll tell you.

别紧张，我来告诉你。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Uganda, yup, in Africa.

乌干达，是的，在非洲。

39.6 of all Ugandans

自己创办经营企业的乌干达人中，

who start, own and operate their own businesses are women.

有百分之 39.6 是女性。

Ugandan women are clearly formidable, but they are not alone.

显然，乌干达女性很强大。 但她们并不是个例。

The second and third country

根据万事卡达的数据，

on that list of world female entrepreneurs,

世界各国女性企业家总数

according to MasterCard, were Botswana and Ghana.

排在第二和第三的国家 分别是博兹瓦纳和加纳。

Yup, Africa.

是的，也在非洲。

(Applause)

（掌声）

So what's keeping these amazing businesses from dominating global stock exchange?

那么为什么这些令人惊叹的企业 没有主导全球证券交易所呢？

Why are you not seeing people like me, yours truly,

为什么你们看不到像我这样的人

listing our companies every day,

领导着我们的公司

dominating Nasdaq and London Stock Exchange?

影响纳斯达克和伦敦交易所呢？

Let me tell you what I think.

让我告诉你我的想法。

I love the hero's journey.

我喜欢英雄之旅。

I can often be found on Reddit late into the night,

你总能在深夜的红迪网看到

after I've put the children to bed,

把孩子哄睡后的我，

arguing about many fantastical worlds.

在为各种奇幻世界据理力争。

And I'm always secretly delighted

我总是窃喜

that the people on the other side of the screen

那些在屏幕另一端的 人永远不会猜到

could never guess that the fierce figure arguing about Middle Earth canon

那个跟他们争论中土圣典

and the ways of the Basilisk Isles in Sothoryos

和索斯洛斯蛇怪岛之路的狠人

is an African mom of two

是一个同时在尼日利亚 和拉各斯经营企业的

who runs a startup out of Lagos, Nigeria.

非洲二孩母亲。

I was born in a small town in Nigeria.

我出生在拉各斯的一个小镇。

In 2001, my parents moved to the United States,

2001 年，我随父母移居美国。

where I grew up, got educated, got married and decided to start a family.

我在那里长大，求学， 然后决定结婚生子组建家庭。

It was the difficult birth of my son that started me on my own hero's journey.

正是我难产的经历开始了 我自己的英雄之旅。

You see, while I was on bed rest,

当时，我在卧床休息，

I found out that 556 women

我意识到撒哈拉以南的非洲

bleed to death every single day across sub-Saharan Africa.

每天有 556 名女性死于失血过多。

And to my astonishment, if you could just move blood to these hospitals,

并且，令我惊讶的是， 如果你只是能把血包送往这些医院，

you could save four out of five women.

你就能拯救四分之五的女性。

I decided as a woman who had sat on that hospital bed seven years ago,

作为一个七年前坐在病床上

wondering whether she was going to survive childbirth,

担忧自己能否顺利分娩的女性， 我觉得我有义务做些什么。

that I had a duty to do something about this.

I moved back home to Nigeria and started my own company.

我搬回拉各斯创立了自己的公司。

You see, Africa has the resources.

你知道的，非洲有资源。

We have the blood, the oxygen, the PPE that we need to save lives.

我们有救援所需的血包， 氧气和各种个人防护装备。

But we don't always have it at the right place, at the right time.

但我们总是无法在正确 的时间和地点获得这些东西。

So that's what we decided to solve.

所以这就是我们决定解决的问题。

We built technology with over 200,000 lines of code

我们用超过两千行代码构建程序

that matches supply to demand,

来实现供需匹配。

and we closed the loop by delivering it to the last mile.

并且我们会配送到 一英里内才结束服务。

In 2016, when this company started,

2016 年公司刚成立时，

we had one single desk at a coworking space.

我们只有在联合办公区的一张办公桌。

And now, as I speak, we operate across Kenya, Nigeria and Ethiopia.

而现在，我前面提到过，我们将业务扩展到了肯尼亚，尼日利亚和埃塞俄比亚。

We can deliver as far as Maiduguri, Borno State, home to the Chibok girls.

我们可以送货到奇博克女孩们 远在博尔诺州迈杜古里的家。

But no part of this journey was easy.

但这段路途的任何一段都不简单。

In fact, it almost did not start.

实际上，在以前几乎无法实现。

Because while I recognized the size of the problem,

虽然我意识到了问题的严重性，

I knew people like me did not start big businesses.

但同时我意识到像我一样的人 没有创立过大企业。

There was no playbook.

我没有样本。

There was no model for me to follow.

没有任何我可以效仿的模式。

And I knew that to solve this problem,

并且我知道要解决这个问题

we would need access to a significant amount of resources,

我们需要通过风险投资，慈善机构

from venture capital, from philanthropy and other critical points of growth.

或任何其他途径获得大量资源。

But there was no model

但这一切没有先例。

because people like me had not received the critical resources they needed

因为我这样的人没有足够用 来发展扩大产业的必要资源。

to grow and scale their own enterprise.

So does this mean women cannot be heroes?

那么，这是否意味着 女性无法成为英雄呢？

Does it mean that we cannot be heroes of our own journey?

这是否意味着我们 无法实现自己的英雄之旅呢？

No, in fact, women like me routinely start their own companies.

答案是否定的，实际上， 像我一样的女性通常会创办自己的公司。

In Nigeria, we have [Abimbola Adebakin]

在尼日利亚，

我们有提供一英里内 药物供应链的 Abimbola Adebakin。

who is building the supply chain to get medicine to the last mile.

We have Bilikiss Abiola, who is protecting the natural world

我们有变废为宝，

守护自然的 Bilikiss Abiola。

by turning trash to cash.

And in Peru, Sully Siucho Diaz is building wealth for families

在秘鲁，SullySiucho Diaz 帮助人们 做出更好的抵押贷款决定

by helping them make better mortgage decisions.

以此为他们的家庭积累财富。

Yet we're not seen as founders that can scale and build large businesses.

然而，我们并不被视为可以 创办大型企业的创业者。

A few years ago, we needed resources at LifeBank,

几年前，我们的公司 LifeBank 需要资源，

and I went to pitch LifeBank to an investor.

因此我去向一位投资者推销它。

I was very excited,

我非常兴奋地告诉他，

and I told him about all the amazing things we would do.

我们能成就多么超乎想象的事业。

And he said to me, "I just can't see you building something that scales."

但他告诉我：“我就是不认为 你建立的东西可以被推广。”

To my face.

在我面前这么说。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Like any normal person, I was taken aback by his lack of faith,

像任何一个正常人一样， 我被他的不信任惊到了。

but I didn't let that stop me.

但这并不能阻止我。

I felt like I was duty bound to build the change,

我更觉得我有责任做出改变。

the innovation that I wanted to see in the world.

我想看到这个世界在革新。

And although he was right,

虽然他是对的，

I don’t look like the classic hero.

我并不是经典的英雄形象。

But, like Frodo, the journey chose me.

但是，就像佛罗多一样， 是命运选择了我。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

(Applause)

（掌声）

So I didn't let that stop me.

因此，我不能让这些东西阻止我。

I went out there and built a great business.

我走了出去，建立了伟大的事业。

And here are a few points.

这里有几个要点。

Since inception, we've doubled revenue year on year.

自成立以来， 我们的收入每年都在翻倍。

(Applause)

（掌声）

We’ve built technology that can predict oxygen demand,

我们建立了可以预测氧气需求的程序。

and we use blockchain to track our blood system.

我们使用区块链来 跟踪我们的血包系统。

These innovations are novel even by global standards.

即使是全球范围内， 我们的新系统也是很前卫的。

We have rescued over 40,000 people.

我们已经挽救了超过四千人的生命。

Our journey is by no means complete.

我们的征程还远没有结束。

But watch us pull it off.

你们会看到我们继续前进。

Truth is, heroes are often not guys in a cape.

事实上，英雄往往不是披着斗篷的人。

And my story suggests that we must look to the unexpected places

我的故事是想告诉大家， 在寻找企业家和领导者时，

when we are looking for entrepreneurs and leaders.

我们必须看向那些设想之外的地方。

Data suggests that if you hold any kind of bias against a group,

数据表明，当你对某个群体 抱有任何偏见的时候，

you're most likely to discriminate

你很有可能歧视 那些最需要被倾听的人。

against the people who most need to be heard.

And it is these people who often have the solution

而往往是这些人有着应对世界上 最紧迫问题的解决方法。

to the world's most pressing challenges.

It is critical that we do the work to listen to every voice

至关重要的是， 我们要努力倾听每一个声音，

and to break down the silos that keep most of us back

击溃那些让我们退缩， 阻碍我们开始的东西。

and keep us from starting.

It is time to close the funding gap between female-led startup,

是时候填补女性创业的资金缺口了。

Black female-led startup world over.

尤其是全球的黑人女性。

(Applause)

（掌声）

Because while you may not see us, we are here, and there are millions of us.

虽然你们可能看不到我们，但我们就在这里。 这里有数以百万计的我们。

So if you are an investor,

如果你是投资者，

I want to invite you to join your peers,

我想邀请你加入你的同行。

and when you are looking for founders to back,

当你在寻找创始人支持时， 看看那些你未曾设想的地方。

look to the unexpected.

And if you are in this room,

在座的任何一个

and you think you may want to go on your own hero's quest,

想要成为自己的英雄的你，

I'm here to tell you to do it.

我想告诉你，行动起来。

And if they don't believe you, show them!

如果其他人不相信你，秀给他们看！

The world needs the most unique voice.

这个世界需要特别的声音。

Thank you.

感谢各位。

(Applause)

（掌声）