#72: Sustainable Businesses, Rest & Leisure, Curiosity
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#72: Sustainable Businesses, Rest & Leisure, Curiosity
Michel Valentin. Chef d’entreprise très performant, ce dernier se trouvait alors dans une phase de réflexion quant à la pertinence du modèle actuel.
The benefits of embracing the spirit of a gift economy are invisible to the people who ask me how I plan to monetize, scale, and grow my business. I’m not in the business of being a business. I’m embracing the work of building a life and all of the connections that will make that meaningful.
"One kind of entrepreneur you say, Whose need am I satisfying today? [...] The other kind, to quote Michael Schraig here, is to say, the purpose of my business is to change people, to change them from something into something else. This is the kind of business that we remember generations later"
The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.