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Probably avoid streets since his next bullet is "A lot of socially driven business is just pure BS." Solving the homeless problem would be a socially driven bu
by brixon 12y ago
Probably avoid streets since his next bullet is "A lot of socially driven business is just pure BS."
Solving the homeless problem would be a socially driven business and that would make it BS and not worth doing.
- sirkneeland 12y agoI think what the author means is that a lot of the businesses CLAIMING to be "socially driven" are pure BS, not that the very idea of a socially driven business is inherently BS. Which would make sense to me.
- icebraining 12y agoI think you're reading it wrong. What he's saying is: many socially-driven businesses are pure BS. That doesn't mean he doesn't believe that a genuine socially-driven business can be built to solve that problem.
- whbk 12y agolol wat? That's an..'interesting' parsing of what he's saying. Is it just me or is it fairly apparent to most others that he's likely saying he's surprised that homelessness in general isn't being tackled (without speaking to the likelihood of success) by a startup, and he then follows by stating the obvious: that most startups who talk about 'changing the world' are blowing smoke. Of course, the unstated insinuation being that a startup aiming to reduce homelessness would actually be worthy of that title. Not sure why you jumped to the least generous interpretation possible but I'd bet a lot of money that there's no there there.