If you’re after a long-term relationship with someone, you shouldn’t be trying to get jiggy every time you meet. It’s tiring, it’s tedious, it’s offensive, and even if it works, it won’t last beyond the initial dopamine hit. Same for business. Founders are full of initiatives. That’s one of the things that makes them better […]
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Vulnerability can be a destructive force
Vulnerability’s not all motherhood and apple pie. There are some really destructive ways that it can show up. And no more so if you’re a founder CEO of a company, where your values and behaviours are very visible and define the company’s culture. A vulnerability that shows no way through – meaning a vulnerability with […]
Helping people overcome loneliness – Faisal Shaikh CEO MyBabble
Very few businesses have the level or resonance and commitment from founders more than those whose origins came from personal tragedy. MyBabble was born after founder Faisal Shaikh’s father sadly left home and didn’t return. It transpired later that unknown to anyone, his dad had been dealing with loneliness. Faisal is a trained and practising […]
“Could we use technology to help the sector really accelerate its impact?” Vinay Nair, CEO Lightful
“How can we collectively increase the quantity and quality of giving to nonprofits, to charities, so that they can raise more awareness, raise more funds, deliver more impact in their communities?” That’s the question that defines Lightful’s work – the company co-founded by my guest on this week’s Karmic Capitalist podcast. Lightful uses technology to […]
“We’re helping people on a fundamental level to be more sustainable” Hussein Allawi, Founder the Sustainability Show
From the high-stakes financial environment of the now defunct Lehman Brothers (“buy-and-sell in its most aggressive manner”) to putting on a show of some of the most ethical and long-term thinking brands. That’s the varied journey which my guest, Hussein Allawi, has been on. He took plenty of lessons from those early days, days which […]