Radical Generosity

Right now in the world, five people have the same wealth as three and a half billion people.

We found, as Americans, 17 trillion dollars in three weeks to bail out the banks. Just to give you sense, 17 trillion dollars is 600 years without poverty on the planet. We found that in three weeks. Everything is just crazy broken in this world. We're living in this narrative, in this stew of an economy, that's bad for us.

We made all of this up. And we can change it. Everything around you is made up. And we weren't so good at version 1.0; we need to get to the next one.

If you were surrounded by radically generous people, how would you act differently? How would you think differently?

When I get a crusty email, I stop myself for a moment and I'm like, 'What's the most radically generous response?'

What do you wake up wanting to change? We so desperately need you. We need your ideas, we need your leadership out there to get us to a better world.

We don't reach our potential by being picked on all day. We reach our potential by being lifted up by others around us.

We have a model that is for funding and supporting female entrepreneurs. Here's how it works: 500 women, contribute $1100 each—it's an act of radical generosity—that money is pooled together in a fund, and then it's loaned out to five female entrepreneurs at 0% interest. They pay that money back over five years and then it's loaned out again. We're building a billion dollar perpetual fund that we'll pass onto our daughters.

I look around and think everything is broken, but as an entrepreneur I realize... what a great time to be alive.