Canadian - Businessman | January 16, 1965 -
At Participant, I am the board. I am the sole greenlight at the company. If something happened to me, that would be a problem.
Jeffrey Skoll
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My goal is to make the biggest difference possible in the world. I have only so many resources and so much time.
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It's a real concern of mine every day. What can we do? How much can we do? How quickly can we address all these important things?
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When I first moved to Hollywood from Silicon Valley, I had some misgivings. But I found that there were some advantages to being in Hollywood. And, in fact, some advantages to owning your own media company. And I also found that Hollywood and Silicon Valley have a lot more in common than I would have dreamed.
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I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.
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I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I'm like, 'Oh. Things aren't quite as good.'
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Looking at America, which has so much wealth and potential and yet has so many deep-rooted problems, I think it gives us, as Canadians, an opportunity to be on the world stage on the climate change issue.
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We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.
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We remain committed to inspiring and compelling social change to the world's most pressing problems through the power of great stories and engaging our audiences to take meaningful action.
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If you can find ways to give people hope that they can achieve something or make a difference, then there's an opportunity for something good to happen.
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If you believe that people are basically good, and you remove obstacles, then they'll do the right thing by each other.
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It's in my own interest - it's in everybody's interest - to have streets that are safe, children that are educated, and drug use that's diminished, crimes that are not affecting us.
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