Stanford Seminar: Embrace the Entrepreneurial Journey
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Channel: Stanford Online · 2017 · Education
Jane Chen Embrace Innovations Jane Marie Chen, co-founder and CEO of Embrace Innovations, describes how her social-enterprise startup’s infant warmer for premature and low-birth-weight babies came into the world. She discusses how passion fuels the drive to overcome setbacks big and small, how Embrace has expanded into retail to support its humanitarian efforts, and explains why we should “choose to see the world through the lens of beauty.” Jane Marie Chen is the co-founder and CEO of Embrace Innovations, a social enterprise startup that aims to help the 20 million premature and low birth-weight babies born every year, through a low-cost infant warmer. The Embrace infant warmer costs about 1 percent of a traditional incubator, and is currently distributed across clinics in India, with pilots being conducted in 10 countries. The Embrace infant warmer is estimated to have helped over 150,000 babies to date. Learn more about Stanford's eCorner: https://ecorner.stanford.edu Learn more about Stanford's online classes and certificates: https://online.stanford.edu/programs See the full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rPE-kcGtKBgYtSMqEJKbESC
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