Why the best minds are not solving world's biggest problems?
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Prasoon Kumar |
TEDxPune
• September 2017
Steve Jobs, one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our times, someone who could not only envision the future but realize it. What problem did he solve? The world's richest foundation, founded by someone whose software has dominated personal computer industry for three decades, what problem has he tackled at the same scale. World's best schools, producing some of the smartest people on the planet, get snapped by e-commerce and technology giants of today. What problem do they end up solving? Prasoon, co-founder and CEO of a one of a kind non profit, billionBricks argues that the biggest problems in the world continue to exist because we are not putting our best minds behind them. Even when we take a stab at solving them, we get satisfied and celebrate small successes in a big way. He validates this with his own work when their social media campaign went viral after his organisation helped just 15 homeless families. Even Ashton Kutcher commented on his facebook, calling their work, 'innovation at its finest'. Was it the 'finest innovation' or was it that there was no other innovation to compete with? To know more about Prasoon and his work at billionBricks, visit www.billionbricks.org or www.weatherhyde.org. Or follow him on twitter at @PrasoonbB