He has a ringside seat to the Stockholm innovation scene, and he predicts that entrepreneurship is about to change.
Crowley made a confession: he used to think that social entrepreneurship was not real entrepreneurship.
It takes a special kind of person to take on the wicked problems that affect society, and we should be grateful to those who choose the path of solving them, but they’re not real entrepreneurs.
They bring focus to the issues that need addressing, but entrepreneurs have to build the solutions.
What is it about your idea that’s more important than the water crisis?'”
Tyler Crowley (@steepdecline) August 2, 2016
He thinks that Sweden is in a unique position to help meet the UN Global Goals, and that’s why he added a new element to the upcoming annual STHLM Tech Fest: the Solutions Summit.
He started Microsoft hoping to make a huge change in how people live their lives, and that’s still what he’s doing.”
But in Sweden, the government creates good policies and the population is quick to make a change once they have decided to do it.
They are more sensitive to the message that we need to solve other people’s problems, not just our own.”
If these funds make a deal with the people whose money they’re using, to change their priority, then we could see a dramatic shift occur.”
The rise of the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement, green funds and ethical investment banks shows that there is a strong appetite to see a change in what money is used to support.
Elon Musk is a social entrepreneur.”
I’m adding the same Solutions Summit to startup events in other cities, and it will work, but I think Silicon Valley will be one of the last places to embrace it.”
Presented by Stockholm School of Economics
