Yossi Vardi, one of Israel’s top entrepreneurs , explained why at the final day of the Mashable Social Good Summit.
“When you succeed, the profit is in the best currency: joy.”
In a quick seven-minute presentation, Vardi distinguished for-profit entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. Though for-profit entrepreneurship can be social, Vardi said, it is complicated by many other pressures.
Vardi shared the story of meeting the dean of a medical at a Silicon Valley wedding. Vardi learned that the man was a “happiness doctor.” He told Vardi about research that suggests that well-being effects the immune system. To help his patients consume fewer drugs, Vardi said, the doctor prescribed happiness.
“How do you subscribe [sic] happiness?” Vardi asked him.
Find someone who needs help and help them, with no ulterior motive, the doctor responded.
This week’s series of inspiring Social Good speakers have shown us that the returns of social entrepreneurship are great and far-reaching. Vardi reminds us that these rewards are also very personal.
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