This short transcript excerpt reports Robert Kiyosaki’s progression model: people typically move from employee → self-employed → business owner → investor → (ideally) philanthropist. The speaker emphasizes that entrepreneurial experience (managing teams, resources, and multi-year planning) is an important preparatory stage for making large-scale impact; jumping straight from school to social impact work, without entrepreneurial experience, reduces effectiveness.
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Robert Kiyosaki, who wrote Rich Dad, Poor dad and Cash Flow Quadrant and some other books that are excellent initial training. He's got this model where he says we start out as employee and then we go to self employed and then we become business owners and then we become investors and then I would add, then we become philanthropists. Ideally we become people that come back and contribute and these build upon each other. And I say this because each level builds on the previous levels, this entrepreneur level where you start learning to manage a team, to manage resources, to think in multi year time horizons. It's a really important step for us to all go through. When I hear people tell me that they want to make an impact on the world and they go straight from high school or from college to that, and they don't get a little experience working in the entrepreneurial world, my heart sinks a little bit because I think they're not going to be as powerful at making a difference or an impact in the world as they would have been had they gone and made themselves strong and powerful and successful first.
