Entrepreneurship can thrive outside conventional paths, and making profit doesn’t have to be the sole goal of starting a business.
As a business owner, you can strive to not just make money, but make a positive impact on the world.
Building with purpose, championing diversity, and leaving the communities around you better than how you found them are all goals you can achieve as an entrepreneur while also growing your business and making profit.
One does not cancel the other, and no one knows this better than this week’s guest on the podcast (and a dear friend of mine), the brilliant Arthur Woods.
Arthur is a three-time TEDx speaker, a published author, the founder of several companies, and an advocate for diversity and inclusivity in the tech entrepreneurship world.
Arthur’s background includes launching a nonprofit for student entrepreneurs, working at Google, founding a DEI analytics software company, and running executive search firms.
In this episode, I sit down with him to discuss social impact through entrepreneurship, the importance of diversity and inclusion in our industry, how to learn from your failures, why being an entrepreneur is all about mindset, and more.
Ready for this thrilling conversation?
Tune in now.
Key Takeaways:
Introduction (00:00)
Meet Arthur (00:25)
The path towards social entrepreneurship (03:28)
How to measure social impact (08:01)
Nonprofit innovation vs for profit innovation (14:35)
How to make a decision about innovation (19:32)
Being an underrepresented entrepreneur (32:34)
What Arthur learned from failure (41:13)
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