When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation - think about doing that in philanthropy.
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.
Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'
The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation.
Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.
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