I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed.

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.

I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.