"We do these things because they're hard!" 

Right after college, John Parker  moved to Japan… with no plan, no experience in banking, and no idea what he was doing. Then the market collapsed.

Suddenly, he wasn’t learning anymore—he was leading. Turnarounds. Crisis situations. Even stepping in as an interim GM in Australia.

That mindset—running toward hard problems—never left.

Today, he’s building a new model at the intersection of philanthropy and venture—because the system forces a false choice:

Either give money away…Or make money.

But what if you could do both?