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SEEK RETURN PLUS IMPACT Founding or investing in a company that would make the most money was almost always a different goal from founding or investing in a company that would have a positive impact. Today they are the same. In fact, many of the best opportunities for technology companies are in solving some of society’s most challenging problems. They include:
Intended Consequences
Hemant Taneja and Kevin Maney
Shopify’s brief is to make their merchants more successful at selling more things to more customers. Payments is a large and growing portion of their business now, but at the core they’re a software company, and programmatic money movement is a very, very interesting capability for a software company to have.
Changing How Main Street Businesses Bank
bitsaboutmoney.com
But life is more difficult than death; instead of passive surrender, it takes attention and management. It can also be more painful. Montaigne’s pleasurable drift on the currents of oblivion did not last. When he revived fully, after two or three hours, it was to find himself assailed with aches, his limbs “battered and bruised.” He suffered for several nights afterwards, and there were longer-term consequences. “I still feel the effect of the shock of that collision,” he wrote, at least three years later.
How to Live
Sarah Bakewell
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