Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.
We've always been about empowering people who feel like us and come from the communities that we come from and want to believe in our mission.
While at Harvard, I was struck by the palpable sense of noblesse oblige that surrounds their sophisticated outreach and bursary programmes. It is almost as if they view extending opportunity to disadvantaged individuals as their highest mission.
You have to be very careful. If you over-commercialize a social mission, it completely loses its soul.
Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
As a Catholic, I am proud of the social mission of the church and its concerns for the poor and dispossessed, but I still personally would support women priests.
While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.
Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.
Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.
It's about more than making money; it's about connecting people in countries all around the world. Our social mission is to get people meeting each other, and we need people who align with that purpose.
To open to civilization the only part of our globe where it has yet to penetrate, to pierce the darkness which envelops whole populations, it is I dare to say, a crusade…
Referring to European colonization of Africa.
The Kitchen's mission is to strengthen communities by bringing local, real food to everyone.
People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it's changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina.
It was clear to us that social movements and activism can only take us so far in our mission.
