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Matt Hangen

Matt Hangen

President & CEO of Water4, a nonprofit organization using for-profit business models to solve the global water crisis in Africa.

Jun 30, 2026

15:30
That's the one thing that I did hear you
15:32
say.
15:33
I mean, like you're, You know, when someone comes and gives you something, like people show up and they'll do the like ceremony and the festival and they're like, thanks, you know, we know we're grateful you guys did this and we're, you know, thank you for it.
15:44
But then when people leave, it looks a lot different in a short amount of time.
15:48
And it's, you know, it's, there's some, it's really hard to help someone with a problem that you don't experience.
15:58
but it's really easy to tell if your solution works if you ask people to pay the actual market rate for it and if they say yes then it solves their problem and if they say no you're not there yet and so I think for us it was This seeing ourselves as us working for them, so they're our customer, we work for them, changed it from us creating silver bullet technologies that sounded good in the U.S. to providing a solution that actually worked for them.
16:33
And this for us was thinking that people needed health from water And in the hierarchy of needs of individuals in these communities, the first pressing issue was time.

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24:48
Yeah.

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