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Curious why you make the distinction between for-profit and non-profit organizations. All organizations face the challenge of their vision of "making the world a better place" not necessarily lining up with the vision of the folks for whom they want to make it better. For-profit companies at least have the signal of "someone is willing to pay me for this" as a concrete guide to whether they align with anyone.

Watsi's founder talked a fair bit about this in his Startup School presentation (which is excellent, BTW):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlT3UhC7NwQ#t=490

⬐ Flenser

For-profit companies at least have the signal of "someone is willing to pay me for this" as a concrete guide to whether they align with anyone.

and non-profit companies have the signal of "someone is willing to donate money to pay me to do this for someone else"

Chase Adam's Startup School talk on Watsi is well worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlT3UhC7NwQ

Chase, Watsi's founder, spoke at start up school last year.

Donate first, then watch his talk and then donate again. Make sure you look for the tip option on the checkout page if you want to help cover Watsi's operational costs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlT3UhC7NwQ

⬐ rooster8

One of the best startup up school talks. Hard to watch this and not feel like you want to work for Chase by the end.

I appreciate what Watsi does, but I'm mostly buying a shirt because of the great speech Chase gave at Startup School [1]. It was of the most value to me at that event. Thanks.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlT3UhC7NwQ

This is a video of the founder of Watsi speaking at startup school.

It was the best speech IMHO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlT3UhC7NwQ

⬐ floetic

This is by far the best presentation at StartupSchool 2013. I was in awe when I saw it from the 9th row.