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...BD: (laughs) Yes, it would. But more than that, he was a leader who was incredibly openminded and tolerant, supported the building of schools, and was one of the first great communicators...
...BD: I went to India, as a sophomore at the College, and that is what drove me. There, I learned a tremendous amount. These are people in one village, whom I am still close to, and the decisions we make affect them...
...BD: We focus on the moment, when an idea and an entrepreneur intersect in their life cycles. Then, the entrepreneur steps out of the mold. No one will support them, but Ashoka will. By year five, our fellows, who we select as the most influential entrepreneurs in a country, half of them change social policy in their country. We make a very small investment, but with this, you create a huge social impact...
...BD: It’s Sanskrit for “the act of absence of sorrow,” but we base it off Ashoka the Great, the Indian emperor, who reigned over India’s military empire in the third century B.C. He led many bloody military conquests, but afterward, he felt a deep regret for his actions, so he put up edicts, in stone, across the empire. They read, “the wars and bloodshed were wrong and unjust...
...BD: We see the big steps that need to get done. And now, we are collaborating, linking entrepreneurs across borders. We see that an idea...