Stepping up to meet the global challenges we face today is going to need concerted action from us in all the various roles we play – as consumers, employees & bosses, voters & citizens, or parents & role models. But critically, we will also need to make our voices heard as investors and business owners. […]
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Purpose can be a real facilitator for growth and profitability. And in turn, growth increases your ability to make impact, while profitability allows the business to serve at a higher level. It’s a wonderfully virtuous cycle when you get it right. A beautiful case study of this is Hyphen8, a Salesforce consultancy with a focus on […]
“How do you drive the endless supply of money that is business into doing good?” – Neal Gandhi of The Panoply
This episode of #TheKarmicCapitalist podcast is so back-to-back full of real life, practical lessons that it was nigh-on impossible to fit it into our standard time limit. But that’s no surprise. Neal Gandhi and his team have taken The Panoply from a standing start to a publicly listed, £1/4 of a billion company in less […]
Tony’s on a mission to bring power to Africa – Renewables in Africa
“We’d like to fully electrify Africa by 2040, with renewable energy at its core”. That’s the vision that Tony Tiyou had when he set up Renewables in Africa (RiA), his engineering, consulting and media organisation. The trigger was seeing a satellite image showing the distribution of power across the planet, and seeing that Africa, was […]
Would you give your shares away? It’s about more than karma
Ben Brabyn’s had a fascinating career across multiple touchpoints with entrepreneurship. He’s … set up and sold his own company; represented entrepreneurs for global investment at the DTI; headed Level39, London’s biggest fintech entrepreneurship hub; created a company to connect entrepreneurs to people who wouldn’t typically inhabit that world. This gives him unique insights that […]