Ep.36 Buy1Give1- Paul Dunn on disruption, the UN Global Goals and Business as a Force for Good.

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Paul Dunn is an absolute force for good. If you’re interested in finding out how you can use entrepreneurship as a vehicle for creating more and contributing more, then you’re definitely going to get a lot out of this episode. Paul is a four-time Ted-X speaker, author and a senior fellow at one of the world’s leading think tanks. He’s also a business guru, having launched three different companies in his career, employing hundreds of employees and exiting for over $40 million in total.

In 2007, he became the chairman of Buy1Give1 – a company that makes a real difference to those who need it most by unlocking the power of giving and creating a network of business owners and entrepreneurs. To date, Buy1Give1 has created 93 million giving impacts around the world and has grand plans for the future. This conversation will help you to think not just about how you and your business can create more but how you can contribute more as well.

In this episode we get into:

The number one tip for finding and connecting with growing businesses across all industries
Paul appearing in Forbes alongside Richard Branson in a global feature on disruptors in business
Why more and more people are leaving corporations and becoming entrepreneurs
Offering a value exchange to small businesses and their clients so that everyone is involved in the giving
Global goals and the framework they create that allows everyone to pull in the same direction, and B1G1 as a vehicle to execute those goals
The importance of investing ahead of the growth in your industry, as opposed to waiting for it
B1G1’s goal to make one billion giving impacts by 2020
Changing your businesses scalability by asking yourself a different set of questions, and reimagining your company goals and objectives
Giving not as a one-way system but as a dynamic, cyclical flow
How Paul’s embedded the philosophy of giving into the brands, companies and people that he’s worked with
The greatest adversities Paul has faced as a human and an entrepreneur
The two words that Paul says before every speaking event to inspire and motivate himself