Morgan

“Possible helpful questions: - What is a bottleneck in your business right now? - Areas that have been overlooked for too long? - Anything keeping you up at night right now? - What is the “least solved” problem on your plate? - What’s taking up most of your focus these days? - Where do you think you’re wasting money?”
― Eric Jorgenson, Career Advice for Uniquely Ambitious People: A decision-making guide for uncommon success

“So in 2013, Patagonia launched a venture capital fund to invest in environmentally and socially responsible for-profit start-ups. We wanted to apply the many lessons we have learned in trying to conduct our business more responsibly to applications beyond the outdoor apparel industry. We were willing to sacrifice short-term returns for long-term financial and environmental gains. Tin Shed Ventures serves as a vehicle for the third pillar of Patagonia’s mission statement: “ . . . use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.” But it also serves to do good in the world: providing funding for people who have business ideas that could help solve the environmental crisis. It is really the small private businesses we hope to influence. It is the tens of thousands of young people who dream of owning their small farm someday. All of us working together can create the change that we need.”
― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual