Amazon. Business Can't Solve the World's Problems — But Capitalism Can - Dan Pallotta. By Dan Pallotta | 8:00 AM January 15, 2013 Business and capitalism get conflated — in our media, our language and in our thinking. They are not the same thing. One is a sector, the other a methodology. By inextricably linking the two, we confine the practice of real, turbo-charged capitalism to business, and we dangerously limit the capacity of non-business organizations to innovate, fund, and bring to scale the kind of breakthrough ideas that will begin to solve the huge social problems we face today.
To be sure, business can change the world. That is one of the things it does, consistently. Business will move the great masses of humanity forward with advancements in pharmaceuticals, materials, process, and technology — but it will almost always leave 10% behind. This is where philanthropy comes in. We have two rulebooks — one for charity and one for the rest of the economic world. Our social problems are gigantic in scale. Where would all the money come from?
You Don't Need a PhD to Innovate - Dan Pallotta. By Dan Pallotta | 10:52 AM June 22, 2012 So you’re not a nano-technologist. You don’t know how to sequence the human genome. You confuse artificial intelligence with posing. Does this mean that you’re useless — that you have no place in the 21st-century economy? Cheer up. You don’t have to be Einstein to disrupt paradigms.
Well, actually, you do — Einstein himself said that his greatest asset was his imagination, not his knowledge. Better Planet The trouble with electric cars is that their range is limited, right? Menchie’s Yogurt Cold Stone Creamery understood that people like custom-made treats. Rent-a-Bike You know Zipcar, right? The Upside-Down Ketchup Bottle. So, welcome back to the 21st-century economy. You can be the one who asks “Why?” What are some of the unasked “Why?” Danpallotta. Uncharitable. Dan Pallotta: How to Make Charity Pay. Danpallotta (danpallotta) sur Twitter.