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My thesis was developed out of attending the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium and hearing Al Gore speak.
He challenged corporate venturers to a higher calling. Instead of following Silicon Valley venture capitalists for their deals, they could play to their strengths and create a better world as a result. Their strengths include longer time horizons and strategic alignments with a larger entity that can support the effort. These two elements could bring us the solutions needed for the largest challenges we face – climate change, poverty, sickness and…