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Challenge to Entrepreneurs During COVID19

Name: Challenge to Entrepreneurs During COVID19
Uploaded: 2020-07-08T18:11:12+00:00
Duration: 1 min 5 s
Channel: Royston G King
Description: In a global virtual gathering of about 1,000 participants, the speaker issues a direct challenge to anyone who identifies as an entrepreneur. He argues…

8 Jul 2020 · 1 min

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In a global virtual gathering of about 1,000 participants, the speaker issues a direct challenge to anyone who identifies as an entrepreneur. He argues that small businesses are the primary engine of economic growth and job creation worldwide, and that the COVID‑19 crisis is the moment when entrepreneurial qualities—optimism, problem‑solving, resourcefulness, scrappiness, and grit—are most needed. The speaker frames this not as a profit‑driven motive but as a responsibility, urging entrepreneurs to actively apply their skill sets to solve the pressing problems created by the pandemic.

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I kind of want to pose a challenge to the 1,000 people who are on this call from around the world, which is that if you're somebody who self-identifies as an entrepreneur, then this is the time that we move. And it's, it's not really because we're greedy, it's because small businesses are the number one driver of growth creation and job creation in the world. And this is, this is when we are needed most. And this is when the optimism that is inherent in entrepreneurs, this is when the problem-solving capability and the resourcefulness and the scrappiness and the grittiness of entrepreneurs, this is the moment where those natural entrepreneurial skill sets and attributes, this is when those are most valuable. And so if you're not playing those cards today, then there's really no better time to be playing them. So it's just a— I think that we have a sense of responsibility as people who identify as entrepreneurs to really be thinking hard about how to solve problems today.