For Immediate Release:
UNREASONABLE
ENOUGH TO CHANGE THE WORLD
By:
Kobi Ansong (Kobi.Ansong@gmail.com)
Atlanta, Georgia – June 2, 2012 – Take a group of brilliant tech
entrepreneurs and world-class mentors, throw them on the world’s fastest cruise
liner, and circumnavigate the globe. Sound unreasonable? Good.
In
Spring 2013, a grand partnership between Unreasonable Institute, Semester at
Sea, and Stanford’s d.School will give birth to Unreasonable at Sea. The program will take a group of technology
entrepreneurs to 14 international locations including Japan, China, India,
South Africa, and Spain.
Only
ventures that have the potential to solve the world’s greatest social and
environmental challenges will be selected. Unreasonable at Sea will open doors
for participants to expand their ventures internationally. In each port, they
will explore economies and form key relationships with top government
officials, venture capitalists, and serial entrepreneurs.
Daniel
Epstein, 26, is the founder of Unreasonable Institute and Unreasonable at
Sea. His experiences abroad with
Semester at Sea as a college student changed his perspective forever and led to
the creation of the Unreasonable Institute.
Now, his program has come full circle and returned to the place it
began.
From
the rickshaw taxi drivers of India to the street vendors of Ghana,
entrepreneurship sustains people across the globe. Epstein began to see the
world through the lens of an entrepreneur while on Semester at Sea.
“When
you get off at the ports and you walk through the streets, you realize that
everybody is an entrepreneur,” said Epstein.
Unreasonable
at Sea holds an unwavering conviction that entrepreneurship will solve the
world’s grand challenges.
“When
entrepreneurs look at problems or challenges, they see solutions and
opportunities,” said Epstein. “I think that’s the type of thinking that we
really need.”
George Bernard Shaw once said, “The reasonable
man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the
world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
###
No comments:
Post a Comment