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Is biodiversity the secret to de-risking your portfolio?

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, host Robert Rubinstein sits down with Dr. David Brand, founder and Executive Chair of New Forests — one of the world's foremost authorities on sustainable forestry investment, with over four decades of experience in forest management, science, and public policy.

David delivers his radical truth: the investment world is obsessed with Climate Tech while systematically overlooking the massive financial and environmental potential of Nature-Based Solutions. From carbon storage to biodiversity offsets to sustainable livelihoods, he makes a compelling case for why forests deserve a central place in every serious portfolio.

In this episode:

• Why Nature-Based Solutions are the most undervalued asset class in sustainable finance today
• How biodiversity restoration can actively lower climate risk in your portfolio
• The evolution of forestry from timber production to a sophisticated environmental asset class
• Why capital is being misallocated away from NbS — and where the real value lies in 2026
• The financial ROI of sustainable forest management: proving the numbers stack up
• New Forests' roadmap to becoming the global leader in Nature-Based Solutions
• Why forestry has no inherent correlation with stock markets or bond rates — making it a powerful diversifier

The key insight: Most institutional capital chases Climate Tech while forests — which simultaneously address carbon sequestration, biodiversity loss, and community livelihoods — remain chronically underfunded. That is a massive mispricing opportunity.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 11:30 — Beyond timber: the evolution of forestry into a sophisticated environmental asset
• 23:45 — The biodiversity offset: can restoring ecosystems lower your climate risk?
• 35:20 — Financial growth: proving the ROI of sustainable forest management
• 48:10 — Nature-Based vs. Tech: why capital is misallocated and where the real value lies in 2026
• 1:02:15 — New Forests' ambition: a roadmap to becoming the world leader in NbS

👤 About Dr. David BrandDr. David Brand has over 40 years of experience in forestry investment, forest management, science, and public policy. Building Bridges He is the founder and former Executive Chair and CEO of New Forests, founded in 2005, a sustainable forestry investment manager with more than $8 billion in assets under management across 4.3 million hectares in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Building Bridges He started New Forests with a $1 million loan and grew it into one of the world's leading forestry investment managers. UBC Forestry He holds a PhD in Forestry from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from the University of Toronto, and currently serves as inaugural Chair of the International Sustainable Forestry Coalition — an organisation of 23 companies working to advance the transition to a nature and climate-positive circular bioeconomy. Building Bridges

Whether you are a portfolio manager, an ESG strategist, or a nature-positive investor, this episode is essential listening for anyone serious about the future of sustainable finance.

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Is the "Green Transition" a logistical impossibility?

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, host Robert Rubinstein sits down with Professor Simon Michaux, Associate Professor of Geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) — one of the most provocative and rigorous voices in the global energy transition debate.

Simon brings decades of mining engineering expertise to answer the $100 trillion question: do we actually have enough minerals to replace fossil fuels? His research reveals a staggering gap between political ambition and geological reality — and delivers a wake-up call that every ESG investor, policymaker, and sustainability professional urgently needs to hear.

In this episode:

• Whether the mineral supply chains required for Net Zero actually exist at the scale needed
• Why copper, lithium, and cobalt are becoming critical bottlenecks — not an engineering problem, but a geological one
• The hard numbers behind replacing every combustion engine with a battery-powered EV
• Why our financial models are dangerously disconnected from biophysical and geological reality
• How the current industrial system must be fundamentally redesigned to operate within planetary limits
• What a genuinely viable post-fossil-fuel transition actually requires — beyond political slogans
• Why parallel, complementary technology systems and circular economy solutions are essential

The key insight: The existing strategic plans for the energy transition are logistically impractical as currently designed. This is not an argument against transition — it is an argument for radical honesty about what transition actually demands.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 12:10 — The 1,000-page reality check: calculating the true material cost of Net Zero
• 23:45 — Critical mineral scarcity: why copper, lithium, and cobalt are the new bottlenecks
• 35:15 — The EV delusion: can we realistically replace every combustion engine with a battery?
• 48:30 — Biophysical economics: why our financial models are disconnected from geological reality
• 1:02:05 — The path forward: designing an industrial system that fits within planetary limits

👤 About Professor Simon MichauxSimon Michaux is an Associate Professor of Geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK), working in the Circular Economy Solutions unit. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Physics and Geology and a PhD in Mining Engineering from the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC) at the University of Queensland, graduating in 2006. Simon Michaux He spent 18 years studying and working at the JKMRC's Sustainable Minerals Institute, involved in several high-profile industry-funded research programmes. Simon Michaux His landmark 2021 GTK report demonstrated that transitioning away from fossil fuels would require mining of minerals and use of recycled metals on a scale far greater than current strategic plans anticipate. GTK His work has brought him before government teams, economists, and policymakers around the world.

Whether you are an impact investor, an energy policymaker, or a sustainability strategist, this episode is essential listening for anyone serious about the real constraints of the green transition.

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In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Professor Olinga Ta'eed — global pioneer in blockchain, social impact measurement, and AI-driven investing — to explore why ESG as we know it is fundamentally incomplete, and what a genuinely comprehensive measure of value looks like in 2026.

From advising the Chinese Ministry of Commerce to speaking at The Vatican, Professor Ta'eed has spent decades at the bleeding edge of one question: how do we quantify what truly matters — beyond carbon, beyond profit, and beyond conventional ESG metrics?

In this episode:

• Why carbon footprint alone is an inadequate and dangerously incomplete measure of real-world impact
• How AI is transforming the identification of high-growth, high-impact investment opportunities
• The "God Metric" — how the Social Earnings Ratio redefined the way governments and organisations measure social value
• Using the AnA^nAn framework to quantify the true impact of investments across financial and non-financial dimensions
• How blockchain technology enables the transparent tracking and transacting of intangible value
• The convergence of AI, blockchain, and the metaverse in the future of ESG and impact investing
• Why total value — financial and non-financial combined — is the only honest measure of an organisation's worth

The key insight: Most ESG frameworks measure what is easy to count, not what truly counts. Until we can quantify love, hope, community, and social wellbeing alongside carbon, we are only measuring half of reality.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Beyond carbon: why ESG impact investing must evolve
• 0:X:XX — The AI revolution: identifying high-growth impact opportunities
• 0:X:XX — Quantifying success: using AnA^nAn to measure real-world impact
• 0:X:XX — The God Metric: how the Social Earnings Ratio was born
• 0:X:XX — Blockchain, metaverse, and the future of value measurement
• 0:X:XX — Practical steps for investors integrating total value frameworks

👤 About Professor Olinga Ta'eedProfessor Olinga Ta'eed PhD FIoD is the founder of the Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance (CCEG), the world's leading think tank on the movement of value, with over 200,000 members. In 2018 he became the world's first Professor of Blockchain at Birmingham City University and Chief Editor of Frontiers in Blockchain, the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to blockchain. He served as Expert Advisor and Council Member to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce's China E-Commerce Blockchain Committee, overseeing an industry worth $1 trillion. His Social Earnings Ratio — dubbed the "God Metric" by the Vatican — became the fastest adopted social impact metric in the world, offering a direct corollary to the financial Price Earnings Ratio used across global stock markets.He currently chairs AITEA Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd (AI, Beijing) and serves as Chief Editor of Frontiers in Blockchain.

Whether you are an ESG professional, an impact investor, or a technologist shaping the future of finance, this episode is essential listening for anyone serious about measuring what truly matters.

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In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Jim Rutt — complexity thinker, tech pioneer, and one of the leading voices behind the Game B movement — for a sweeping conversation about the fatal flaws of our current civilisational operating system and what a genuinely better world could look like.

Game A — the system of short-term competition, systemic exploitation, and zero-sum thinking that has defined modern society — is showing its cracks. Jim argues it is not just reformable. It needs replacing. And Game B is the framework for what comes next.

In this episode:

• The fatal flaws and blind spots of our current social, economic, and political models
• What Game B actually is — and why it prioritises collective wellbeing, sustainability, and collaborative evolution over short-term gain
• How we practically transition from "here" to "there" — and the specific role individuals, investors, and institutions can play
• Insights from Jim's research in evolutionary AI and the scientific study of consciousness
• Why systems thinking is the essential tool for understanding and navigating civilisational change
• The role of free speech, open inquiry, and community makerspaces in building regenerative societies
• What Game B communities need to survive and grow with integrity

The key insight: Game A is not a series of isolated problems — it is one interconnected system producing predictable outcomes. Solving it requires replacing the system, not patching it.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• Introduction 00:00:00
• Game B 00:03:13
• The Gateway Insight: We Built It, We Can Change It 00:07:01
• The state of our culture and people today 00:11:12
• History of Game A 00:16:13
• The most horrifying mammalian biomass on Earth 00:19:10
• The state of game A 00:20:36
• The Davos Man Solution 00:21:49
• The Game B Alternative 00:22:43
• How to help the rich 00:37:46
• Transition from Game A to Game B 00:41:52
• Are preppers in the US Game B people? 00:46:32
• How to get through to people who want to die rich 00:48:00
• Land and Money 00:51:48
• How to stay upbeat 00:55:50
• Omidyar’s New CEO 01:00:15

👤 About Jim RuttJim Rutt is a Distinguished Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute and Chairman of the California Institute for Machine Consciousness, as well as the host of The Jim Rutt Show podcast. He was CEO of Network Solutions — which operated the .com, .net, and .org domain namespaces — and negotiated its $15 billion acquisition by Verisign in 2000, and served as the first CTO of Thomson Reuters.He was Researcher in Residence at the Santa Fe Institute from 2002 to 2004, studying the application of complexity science to financial markets, social simulations, agent-based models, and evolutionary artificial intelligence. Vt He is Past President and co-founder of the MIT Free Speech Alliance, and Executive Producer of the film An Initiation to Game~B. In 1981, he was also the first person to use the term "snail mail" to describe conventional postal services. Wikipedia

Whether you are an impact investor, a systems thinker, or someone who senses that the current world needs more than incremental reform, this conversation is a masterclass in civilisational rethinking.

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In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Michael Madden — one of the most seasoned frontier market entrepreneurs in global financial services. With over 30 years of experience building banking and fintech businesses across Russia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and the former Soviet Union, Michael's career is the definitive blueprint for what it means to create financial infrastructure where none exists.

From scaling Renaissance Credit into Russia's third-largest consumer finance bank, to founding OnGo — Myanmar's leading digital payments platform — Michael has operated at the sharpest end of emerging market risk, including managing a live business through a military coup.

In this episode:

• How to launch and scale a fintech company in countries that lack basic financial infrastructure
• Real-world tactics for keeping staff safe and operations running during a national coup
• The biggest challenges and most compelling opportunities in Central and Southeast Asian frontier markets
• How to engage international partners and build consensus across 17+ diverse EMEA markets
• Why impact investing and financial inclusion are inseparable in emerging market strategy
• The mindset shift required to lead through extreme uncertainty and political instability
• Lessons from over three decades of frontier entrepreneurship across 70+ countries

The key insight: The greatest barriers in frontier markets — lack of infrastructure, political instability, regulatory gaps — are not just risks. For the right operator, they are the opportunity.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

Introduction 00:00:00

Michael’s journey into frontier markets 00:04:33

Early challenges in Russia 00:10:07

Navigating Operating Principles in an Emerging Economy 00:12:00

Why work in Mongolia? 00:13:12

Robert’s first investment in House Bank 00:16:29

The challenges of running a business in a country with a military coup 00:19:51

The Military Coup in Burma 00:22:21

The challenges of operating in Burma 00:23:47

The impact of the collapse of FMCGS on the NGO sector 00:26:51

Challenges in Emerging Frontier Markets 00:27:51

Safety in Burma 00:34:26

Is Money Transfers seen by the government? 00:36:42

How do you deal with a skeptic? 00:38:41

How to Survive Financially 00:42:11

Do you have a clear life goal? 00:43:17

The Next Adventure 00:45:17

Conclusion 00:55:15

👤 About Michael MaddenMichael Madden has over 30 years of experience in financial services, with deep expertise in payments, retail banking, and emerging market entrepreneurship. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ronoc, an investment and advisory business founded in 2007 focused on financial services in Central and Southeast Asia. In 2003, he joined Renaissance Capital Group as the founding CEO of Renaissance Credit, which became the third-largest consumer finance bank in Russia. In Myanmar, he is the founder and Chairman of OnGo, a market-leading digital payments business launched in 2016. Prior to founding Ronoc, he spent a decade at American Express establishing card businesses across the former Soviet Union. An adventurer at heart, Michael has visited 70+ countries, completed six marathons, and is an early pioneer of the Virgin Galactic Future Astronaut programme.

Whether you are an impact investor, a fintech entrepreneur, or a fund manager exploring frontier markets, this episode delivers hard-won lessons from one of the most experienced operators in the field.

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In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Martin Rich, Co-founder and CEO of Future-Fit Foundation — one of the most rigorous and credible critics of modern ESG from the inside. With 25 years spanning investment banking at JP Morgan, HSBC, and UBS to the frontlines of social finance and impact investing, Martin offers a rare insider-turned-innovator perspective on what it truly takes to redefine corporate success.

The current ESG model is under fire — and Martin explains exactly why, and what a genuinely future-fit alternative looks like.

In this episode:

• A direct, honest evaluation of where ESG succeeds and where it fundamentally fails to drive real change
• The Future-Fit framework: what it means for a business to be environmentally restorative, socially just, and economically inclusive
• Why "doing less harm" is not enough — and how companies can move to actively "doing more good" with measurable strategies
• How the Future-Fit Business Benchmark gives companies and investors a free tool to transform long-term value creation
• Insights from Martin's work with the G7 Social Investment Task Force on shifting asset allocation toward genuine impact
• Why regulation is the bare minimum, not the ultimate ambition — and what real systemic change requires
• The shift from ESG as a compliance exercise to Future-Fitness as a civilisational imperative

The key insight: ESG was never designed to solve the problem — it was designed to manage it. A truly future-fit economy demands businesses move beyond risk mitigation toward active restoration of people and planet.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Is ESG making a real difference or just better marketing?
• 0:X:XX — The ESG critique: strengths, failures, and blind spots
• 0:X:XX — Introducing the Future-Fit framework
• 0:X:XX — From "doing less harm" to "doing more good"
• 0:X:XX — The shift in asset allocation: lessons from the G7 Social Investment Task Force
• 0:X:XX — What genuinely future-fit business looks like in practice
• 0:X:XX — The road ahead: rewiring the global socio-economic system

👤 About Martin RichMartin Rich is Co-founder and CEO of Future-Fit Foundation, a sustainability and impact specialist with over 25 years of experience in both mainstream and social investment. Whebgroup He spent 13 years in international investment banking on structured debt and derivative products for JP Morgan, HSBC, and UBS, before spending 7 years as Sales Director at Social Finance Ltd, where he focused on developing the investor base for social impact investments. Thinkingaheadinstitute He is also a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Endowment Investment Committee of Access Foundation, and a member of advisory and investment committees for WHEB Asset Management, North Star Transition, and formerly the Asset Allocation Working Group of the G7 Social Investment Task Force. Future-Fit Business He holds two Master's degrees with Distinction in Engineering from Queens' College, Cambridge. Whebgroup In his spare time, Martin is an international sports-car racer who has competed twice in the famous Le Mans 24 Hours.

Whether you are an ESG professional, an impact investor, a corporate sustainability leader, or simply someone who believes business must do more than minimise harm, this episode is essential listening.

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In this TBLI Talk, we go behind the scenes with Audrey Selian, Director of Artha Impact at Rianta Capital Zurich and co-founder of Artha Networks Inc. (ANI). Audrey has spent nearly two decades deploying private capital into high-impact businesses across India's agriculture, health, energy, water, and livelihoods sectors. She doesn't just talk about change — she builds the infrastructure for it.

From co-founding Impact for Breakfast — a global community of 5,400+ impact investors across 50+ cities — to establishing Impact Hub Yerevan, Audrey's journey is a masterclass in separating genuine strategy from impact washing.

In this episode:

• The "don'ts" of impact finance — the most common mistakes and how to avoid them
• How to identify the real "doers" who get things done in complex, last-mile markets
• Practical advice on spotting impact washers and navigating a noisy sector
• How SaaS platforms like ANI are revolutionising investment discovery and collaboration
• What two decades of deploying capital in India has taught her about what actually works
• How to build ecosystems — not just portfolios — that create lasting systemic change

The key insight: Impact investing is only as powerful as the rigour behind it. The sector's greatest threat is not failure — it is the illusion of success created by impact washing.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Is impact investing a buzzword or a genuine force for change?
• 0:X:XX — The "don'ts" of impact finance: mistakes to avoid
• 0:X:XX — Vetting for excellence: identifying the real doers
• 0:X:XX — Spotting imposters: navigating impact washing
• 0:X:XX — Ecosystem building: how ANI is revolutionising investment discovery
• 0:X:XX — The future of systemic impact at scale

👤 About Audrey SelianAudrey Selian is Director of Artha Impact at Rianta Capital Zurich AG, where she has led the Singh Family Trust's impact investment advisory work since 2006. She has overseen dozens of investments across India in health, livelihoods, agribusiness, and energy — focused on inclusive, last-mile solutions. She is co-founder of Artha Networks Inc. (ANI), a SaaS platform supporting investor collaboration and deal discovery, and founded the Artha Impact platform — an ecosystem of 170+ investors and 80 enterprise support organisations. She holds a PhD in Technology Policy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, was a doctoral fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and earned degrees from the LSE and Wellesley College. She is co-editor of The Business of Building a Better World and co-founder of Baraka Impact Finance.

Whether you are an impact investor, a fund manager, or a social entrepreneur serious about making capital work for people and planet, this episode delivers the hard truths the sector needs to hear.

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Are corporations more powerful than countries? 🌎⚖️

Nearly 70% of the world’s 100 largest economic entities are no longer nations—they are corporations. This massive concentration of power means corporate decisions impact everything from global climate to local communities.

In this video, Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, breaks down why the current "Anti-ESG" movement is a threat to both economic prosperity and personal freedom. He explains how shareholder advocacy is the most powerful tool we have to reduce long-term risk and ensure companies prioritize People, Planet, and Profit.

Since 1992, As You Sow has been at the forefront of shifting corporate behavior. Learn how direct communication with executives is building business models that protect brand reputation and the bottom line for generations to come.

• The Power of Shareholder Advocacy: How regular investors can force the world's largest companies to change.

• Long-Term Risk Management: Why ignoring environmental and social impacts is a massive financial liability.

• The "Anti-ESG" Truth: Decoding the crusade against responsible investing and what it means for your freedom.

• Real-World Impact: Concrete examples of shareholder actions that have successfully transformed corporate policies.

Andrew Behar is the CEO of As You Sow, the nation’s non-profit leader in shareholder advocacy. Under his leadership, the organization has shifted trillions of dollars in corporate assets toward sustainability and social justice, working collaboratively with CEOs to build a regenerative economy.

#ESG #ShareholderAdvocacy #CorporateResponsibility #AndrewBehar #AsYou Sow #Sustainability #ImpactInvesting #RiskManagement #Finance #ClimateAction

Can economics be reimagined for a just future?

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Rob Johnson, President and co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) — one of the most consequential voices challenging the orthodoxies that have shaped global finance for decades.

Founded in 2009 with George Soros, William Janeway, and James Balsillie in the wake of the global financial crisis, INET has become the world's leading catalyst for fresh economic thinking — tackling everything from inequality and climate change to financial instability and democratic erosion.

In this episode:

• Why the current economic models are fundamentally inadequate for governing our societies and markets
• How new economic thinking can build financial systems that serve humanity — not the other way around
• The dangerous discontents driving political turmoil in advanced economies — and what economics gets wrong about them
• Why markets are tools, not magical carriers of goodness — and what that means for policy and investing
• The intersection of economic reform, climate transition, and social justice
• How INET's Commission on Global Economic Transformation is reshaping the conversation between academia, policy, and practice
• What a genuinely equitable and sustainable economic system actually requires

The key insight: We are living through the failure of two romances — the romance of unfettered free markets and the idealistic romance of government. New economic thinking demands we replace both with something more honest, more human, and more effective.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Reimagining economics for a just future
• 0:X:XX — Why current economic models are failing society
• 0:X:XX — INET's origins and mission after the 2008 financial crisis
• 0:X:XX — Inequality, climate, and democratic erosion: economics as cause and cure
• 0:X:XX — The Commission on Global Economic Transformation
• 0:X:XX — What new economic thinking actually looks like in practice
• 0:X:XX — Building bridges between academia, policy, and real-world impact

👤 About Rob JohnsonRob Johnson is President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which he co-founded with George Soros, William Janeway, and James Balsillie in 2009. Institute for New Economic Thinking Previously, he was a Managing Director at Soros Fund Management, managing a global currency, bond, and equity portfolio specialising in emerging markets, and a Managing Director at Bankers Trust Company. Earlier, he served as Chief Economist of the US Senate Banking Committee and Senior Economist of the US Senate Budget Committee. Princeton University He served on the United Nations Commission of Experts on International Monetary Reform under the chairmanship of Joseph Stiglitz. Princeton University He was Executive Producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, directed by Alex Gibney. Grokipedia He holds a PhD and MA in Economics from Princeton University and a BS in both Electrical Engineering and Economics from MIT. Institute for New Economic Thinking

Whether you are an economist, an impact investor, a policymaker, or simply someone who believes the global economic system needs a fundamental rethink, this conversation is essential listening.

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#NewEconomicThinking #INET #RobJohnson #ImpactInvesting #ESG #SustainableFinance #EconomicJustice #Inequality #ClimateFinance #SystemicChange #TBLI #RadicalTruth #GlobalEconomy #EconomicReform #GeorgeSoros

Can unrestricted funding and radical trust unlock greater impact than traditional grants?

In this TBLI Talk, we sit down with Kevin Starr, CEO and director of the Mulago Foundation — one of the most respected and unconventional philanthropic organisations in the world. A former physician who stumbled into philanthropy in 1994, Kevin has spent three decades building a model that bets on the best people with the best ideas — and then gets out of their way.

Mulago finds, funds, advises, and promotes organisations with scalable solutions to poverty, working today with 50 portfolio organisations and 40 fellows across Africa, South Asia, and South America. Many of its portfolio organisations have become leaders in the global social sector.

In this episode:

• What truly defines a high-impact organisation — and why most funders get it wrong
• Why unrestricted, long-term funding produces better outcomes than traditional grant structures
• The case for grants over investments — and when each is the right tool
• How Mulago's eight-word mission statement framework helps social entrepreneurs design for measurable impact
• Why measuring impact is not just about accountability — it is how organisations get better
• The difference between organisations that scale and those that stall — and what funders can do about it
• How philanthropy can function as early-stage venture capital for humanity's biggest problems

The key insight: The social sector's biggest problem is not a lack of funding — it is a lack of rigour. The organisations that change the world are built around a big idea, designed for scale, and relentlessly focused on whether what they are doing is actually working.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — What is a truly high-impact organisation?
• 0:X:XX — Mulago's model: unrestricted funding and radical trust
• 0:X:XX — Grant vs. investment: which drives more impact?
• 0:X:XX — Designing for scale: the eight-word mission statement
• 0:X:XX — Why measuring impact is the most important thing you can do
• 0:X:XX — What the best social entrepreneurs have in common
• 0:X:XX — The future of philanthropy as risk capital for humanity

👤 About Kevin StarrKevin Starr had a perfectly good career in medicine when he stumbled into philanthropy in 1994 — when his friend and mentor Rainer Arnhold died suddenly while the pair were working together in Bolivia, and Arnhold's family asked Starr to carry forward his legacy through the Mulago Foundation. Hewlett He completed medical school and residency at UC San Francisco. Mulagofoundation In 2003, he established the Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program to apply Mulago's principles and tools to help social entrepreneurs turn good ideas into lasting change at scale. Inspiringsocialentrepreneurs Mulago's portfolio includes globally recognised organisations such as One Acre Fund, Blue Ventures, Digital Green, Educate Girls, Noora Health, and Global Forest Watch. Wikipedia Kevin is a regular contributor to the Stanford Social Innovation Review and serves as chairman of Big Bang Philanthropy, a group of funders working to direct capital to those best at fighting poverty.

Whether you are a philanthropist, an impact investor, a social entrepreneur, or a foundation leader, this episode is essential listening for anyone serious about making funding work harder for the world.

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#ImpactInvesting #Philanthropy #KevinStarr #MulagoFoundation #SocialEntrepreneurship #ScalableImpact #TBLI #RadicalTruth #SocialImpact #ESG #VenturPhilanthropy #PovertyAlleviation #GrantMaking #SystemicChange #ImpactMeasurement