31/01/2021

20 tweets about social entrepreneurs (by David Bornstein)

  1. Social entrepreneurs are unwilling, or unable, to rest until they have spread their ideas society-wide.
  2. An important social change frequently begins with a single entrepreneurial author: one obsessive individual who sees a problem and envisions a new solution.
  3. Every change begins with a vision and a decision to take action (…) Then, social change takes a long, long time.
  4. An entrepreneur is not happy solving a problem in one village or two schools.
  5. Social entrepreneurs make dictators uncomfortable.
  6. The corpus of knowledge in social entrepreneurship comes from first-hand engagement with the world—from asking lots of questions and listening and observing with a deep caring to understand.