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00:00 You want to know why charities haven't changed the world?
00:04 We hypnotize people in consumption.
00:08 And we don't let the non-profit sector indoctrinate people in compassion.
00:13 We have to go beg for every dollar we get.
00:16 We're trying to address income inequality.
00:18 Climate change.
00:19 Feeding the world.
00:20 The horrors of war.
00:21 Racism.
00:22 Sexual violence.
00:23 Poverty.
00:24 We need to come up with solutions that we can't yet imagine.
00:27 What is a world that works for everyone?
00:29 What does that world look like?
00:32 There's this huge distrust with charities.
00:35 We're still in fact businesses.
00:37 You still have the same operating costs.
00:39 Staff.
00:40 Flights.
00:41 Home bills.
00:42 Office rents.
00:43 We have two rule books.
00:44 One for the non-profit sector and one for the rest of the economic world.
00:47 The motive to make money is a powerful galvanizer of capital.
00:51 We're competing with Apple, McDonald's, Coca-Cola for the same customers.
00:55 We're building this magical thing that creates community and transforms lives.
00:59 And it gets destroyed.
01:02 Breaking news tonight.
01:03 Getting other charities under fire.
01:04 Very risky.
01:05 Questionable spending practices.
01:06 Where's the money gone?
01:07 The work we're doing to help people has been so mischaracterized that somebody actually
01:10 was going to come find me and shoot me.
01:12 There's something in your brain that can snap.
01:16 And it did.
01:20 When people tell me you just can't change the way people think about charity, I think,
01:24 "Oh yeah?"
01:25 You know, we have changed the way people think about seatbelts and about smoking and about
01:32 women having the right to vote and civil rights.
01:37 Things can change.
01:38 The non-profit sector is the place where you can experiment and do creative things.
01:43 And that means investing boldly.
01:46 Investing in the people.
01:47 They want us to be a social enterprise empire.
01:50 I want to grow as big as it takes to solve these problems.
01:54 The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead.
01:58 Ask about the scale of their dreams.
02:04 The most incredible things are possible.
02:06 [applause]
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