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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I grew up in Limpopo, on the border of Limpopo
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.00,0:00:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Mpumalanga, a little town called Motetema.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.00,0:00:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Water and electricity supply are as unpredictable
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.00,0:00:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the weather, and growing up in these tough situations,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.00,0:00:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the age of 17, I was relaxing with a couple of friends
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.00,0:00:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of mine in winter, and we were sunbathing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.00,0:00:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Limpopo sun gets really hot in winter.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.00,0:00:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So as we were sunbathing, my best friend next to me says,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.00,0:00:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Man, why doesn't somebody invent something that you can
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.00,0:00:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just put on your skin and then you don't have to bathe?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.00,0:00:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I sat, and I was like, "Man, I would buy that, eh?"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.00,0:00:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I went home, and I did a little research,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.00,0:00:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I found some very shocking statistics.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.00,0:00:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over 2.5 billion people in the world today
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.00,0:00:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do not have proper access to water and sanitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.00,0:00:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Four hundred and fifty million of them are in Africa,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.00,0:00:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and five million of them are in South Africa.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.00,0:00:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Various diseases thrive in this environment,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.00,0:00:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most drastic of which is called trachoma.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.00,0:01:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trachoma is an infection of the eye due to dirt
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.00,0:01:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting into your eye. Multiple infections of trachoma
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.00,0:01:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can leave you permanently blind.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.00,0:01:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The disease leaves eight million people permanently blind
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.00,0:01:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each and every year. The shocking part about it
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.00,0:01:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that to avoid being infected with trachoma,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.00,0:01:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all you have to do is wash your face:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.00,0:01:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no medicine, no pills, no injections.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.00,0:01:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So after seeing these shocking statistics, I thought to myself,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.00,0:01:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Okay, even if I'm not just doing it for myself
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.00,0:01:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the fact that I don't want to bathe, I at least need
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.00,0:01:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do it to try to save the world." (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.00,0:01:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So with my trusty little steed, my Nokia 6234 cell phone --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.00,0:01:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't have a laptop, I didn't have Internet much,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.00,0:01:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except for the 20-rand-an-hour Internet cafe —
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.00,0:01:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did research on Wikipedia, on Google, about lotions,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.00,0:01:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,creams, the compositions, the melting points, the toxicities --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.00,0:01:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did high school science --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.00,0:01:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I wrote down a little formula on a piece of paper,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.00,0:01:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it looked like the KFC special spice, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.00,0:02:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was like, okay, so we've got the formula ready.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.00,0:02:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we need to get this thing into practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.00,0:02:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fast forward four years later, after having written
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.00,0:02:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a 40-page business plan on the cell phone,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.00,0:02:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having written my patent on the cell phone,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.00,0:02:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm the youngest patent-holder in the country,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.00,0:02:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and — ("No more bathing!") —
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.00,0:02:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't say any more than that. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.00,0:02:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had invented DryBath, the world's first
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.00,0:02:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bath-substituting lotion.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.00,0:02:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You literally put it on your skin, and you don't have to bathe.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.00,0:02:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.00,0:02:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So after having tried to make it work in high school
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.00,0:02:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the limited resources I had, I went to university,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.00,0:02:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,met a few people, got it into practice,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.00,0:02:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have a fully functioning product that's ready
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.00,0:02:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to go to the market. It's actually available on the market.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.00,0:02:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we learned a few lessons in commercializing
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.00,0:02:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and making DryBath available.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.00,0:02:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the things we learned was that poor communities
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.00,0:03:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't buy products in bulk.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.00,0:03:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They buy products on demand. A person in Alex
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.00,0:03:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't buy a box of cigarettes. They buy one cigarette
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.00,0:03:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,each day, even though it's more expensive.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.00,0:03:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we packaged DryBath in these innovative little sachets.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.00,0:03:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just snap them in half, and you squeeze it out.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.00,0:03:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the cool part is, one sachet substitutes one bath
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.00,0:03:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for five rand.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.00,0:03:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After creating that model, we also learned a lot
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.00,0:03:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of implementing the product.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.00,0:03:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We realized that even rich kids from the suburbs
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.00,0:03:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really want DryBath. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.00,0:03:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least once a week.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.00,0:03:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, we realized that we could save 80 million liters
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.00,0:03:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of water on average each time they skipped a bath,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.00,0:03:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also we would save two hours a day for kids
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.00,0:03:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are in rural areas, two hours more for school,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.00,0:03:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two hours more for homework,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.00,0:03:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two hours more to just be a kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.00,0:03:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After seeing that global impact, we narrowed it down
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.00,0:03:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to our key value proposition,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.00,0:03:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was cleanliness and convenience.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.00,0:03:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DryBath is a rich man's convenience
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.00,0:03:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a poor man's lifesaver.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.00,0:04:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having put the product into practice, we are actually now
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.00,0:04:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the verge of selling the product
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.00,0:04:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,onto a multinational to take it to the retail market,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.00,0:04:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one question I have for the audience today is,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.00,0:04:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the gravel roads of Limpopo,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.00,0:04:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an allowance of 50 rand a week,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.00,0:04:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came up with a way for the world not to bathe.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.00,0:04:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's stopping you? (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.00,0:04:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not done yet. I'm not done yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.00,0:04:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And another key thing that I learned a lot
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.00,0:04:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,throughout this whole process,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.00,0:04:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,last year Google named me as one of the brightest young minds in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.00,0:04:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm also currently the best student entrepreneur
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.00,0:04:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the world, the first African to get that accolade,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.00,0:04:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one thing that really puzzles me is, I did all of this
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.00,0:04:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just because I didn't want to bathe. Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.00,0:04:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause.)