Rodolfo Medina Jr, at age 8, was already helping his parents with paperwork and documentation for his parents’ shop. Due to this, his parents knew their child was special and that he would own a business someday. This interest in numbers and data sparked a fire inside of Medina which began his journey as an entrepreneur. Fast forwarding 10 years, Medina develops a desire for medical supplies and reaching out to places that have less recourses than we do here in the United States of America. Medina targeted the Philippines, as a country in need of recourses that do not have opportunity to get them. And just like that, Medical Depot was born. A company in which Medina would wish to give every Filipino medical supplies. In addition, this was all taking place during the Covid-19 pandemic which increased the demand for medical products even more. Medina’s goal for Medical Depot is too open over 100 branches worldwide by the end of the year 2023. This is an ambitious goal for Medina; however, he believes that the only way to achieve big things, is to dream big things. From this story of Medina, it really stood out to me that he used his desire to help the less fortunate, to build a company off of this. We can all take lessons from this entrepreneurial journey in Medina’s life.
This is a stellar social entrepreneurship example! Finding a pain can mean literal physical ailments!