Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

“Our best chance to make the world better is to agree that the choice among corporate structures should be made entirely in service of social impact,” says Rich Leimsider, the Vice President of Fellowship Programs at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests with social entrepreneurs. B corp, or Benefit Corporation. What about the rest of us?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And all of the other smart and operational decisions that have enabled Airbnb to weather the storm and go on to have one of the most successful public market debuts. When I was at RISD, I went to Rhode Island School of Design, there was this idea that was emerging called The Green Movement, the sustainability movement.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And all of the other smart and operational decisions that have enabled Airbnb to weather the storm and go on to have one of the most successful public market debuts. When I was at RISD, I went to Rhode Island School of Design, there was this idea that was emerging called The Green Movement, the sustainability movement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

One by one the markets in which you operate shut down. I went to Rhode Island School of Design. At the time it was called the green movement. They're our shareholders, they're our employees, they're our hosts, they're our guests, and they're also the communities we operate in. You can't really operate.

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