This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.

Can Profit beat Poverty?


 

This is taken from Andy Ellwood's blog titled Ending Poverty:

 

In an awesome interview on his amazing home on Necker Island, a few very fortunate and awesome entrepreneurs had a great discussion with Sir Richard Branson. The whole interview is worth watching (but a little long at 40 minutes)

But, there was on line that Branson shares that ties right in with the ideas of the Philanthropreneur:

“Creating business in themselves can solve social problems. By being an entrepreneur you create businesses that create jobs and by creating jobs you can help take people out of poverty.”

To see more, check it out here:

http://youtu.be/tDTX5UVoDxQ?t=13m30s

Watch the video and respond below.

Task Discussion