Making impact markets the new standard in government procurement, interview w. Erdem Ovacik π€
Description
Key insights:
* Interview with Erdem Ovacik, Founder of Impact Markets, Founder and ex-CEO of Donkey Republic π²
* Erdem is a big believer in impact markets - a marketplace where (primarily) governments pay companies and other organizations for a specific positive impact - or receive a payment in return for negative impact π°
* Impact start-ups today donβt fulfill their full potential in solving our various social and environmental challenges as governments donβt take all the start-upsβ positive and negative impacts into account ποΈ
* Erdem gives the example of Donkey Republic, the start-up he founded, to show that they had a lot of positive impact, but it was not accounted for and they never got paid for it βοΈ
Agenda for the chat:
* Definition of the concept of impact markets π
* Data issue for impact markets π
* Donkey Republic case π²
* Think about impact markets as an impact VC π‘
* Erdemβs current project π
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