This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Carlos Perea: The Benefits of Working in Clean Tech" created on December 10, 2010, featuring Carlos Perea discussing the motivations behind entrepreneurship, particularly in the cleantech sector, and the significant impact it can have on society.
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The reason most people choose to be entrepreneurs is because they want to have an impact. They want to make some kind of impression. And just as a quick digression, impact really has a couple of key dimensions. And what I mean is you can have a very profound impact on a small number of people and have a significant impact, or you can have a very small impact, but in very broad reach and also create quite an impact. But in reality, and one of the reasons I think cleantech is so compelling is what a lot of entrepreneurs look to do is have world changing ideas on a very large basis or platform. And clean tech just flat out offers more of these opportunities than just about any other technology area that I can think of. Or put in completely different terms. Does the world need faster downloads? Probably not. Certainly appreciate them. Do we need better social networking sites? Probably don't need them. Do we often value them very highly? Of course. But we do need power, we do need water. We need these things to continue the quality of life. So there really aren't small plays. There may be niche plays, but there really aren't that many small plays in the whole clean tech environment.
