Paying Forward Through Innovation and Education: Interview with Pedro Espinoza

In this episode of The Business RoundUp, we are joined by Pedro David Espinoza a TED speaker, entrepreneur, AI investor, and author. Pedro shares how he is invested in the future by empowering underserved communities through technology and entrepreneurship. 

In this episode, he shares insight into:

• What prompted him to start Pan Peru USA, a nonprofit organization that trains Andean women in rural Peru to become entrepreneurs by marketing and selling handmade alpaca garments.
• How Pan Peru USA has scaled under his leadership, from empowering one woman to over 100, with support from Fortune 500 companies such as KPMG, Bristol Myers Squibb, MSCI, and Western Union.
• Discuss SmileyGo, a platform that has helped companies invest smarter by connecting them with nonprofits. The platform indexed the data of 1.5 million NGOs.
• His journey as the founder & CEO of SmileyGo, an app that indexed the data of 1.5 million NGOs in addition to having users in 30 countries. 
• His book – Differences That Make A Difference, which attracted 100 CEOs as contributors such as Pat Gelsinger who wrote the foreword.