by chinmoy on 5/16/13, 3:39 PM with 3 comments
by Blinkky on 5/16/13, 5:18 PM
"His ideas are in various stages of development and include a food delivery service, a laser company, and a hardware accelerator program."
This tells me that he has all of these "ideas" but no actual expertise in any of these areas. How often have you heard some "bro" say they have a great idea in some field which they don't know anything about.
"Whatever he does next, Roth intends to hire from within the homeless community, which he views as a hotbed of untapped talent."
I'm sure there are some very smart homeless people out there, but you need skills in relevant technologies to be a successful worker in the type of companies hes wants to start. Food delivery might be easy for the homeless to pick up, Optoelectronics on the other hand not so much.
Good on the guy for learning some valuable skills, turning his life around and helping the homeless. Lets just try and be a little bit realistic about whats going on here though.
by Jun8 on 5/16/13, 3:48 PM
Kids know, without knowing they know, that they can create wealth. If you need to give someone a present and don't have any money, you make one. But kids are so bad at making things that they consider home-made presents to be a distinct, inferior, sort of thing to store-bought ones-- a mere expression of the proverbial thought that counts. And indeed, the lumpy ashtrays we made for our parents did not have much of a resale market.
As he points out, most everyone loses this innate understanding of creating wealth, making stuff, as they grow older. This guy has rediscovered it.
Oc course, this would have been impossible without the enabler of shared space, so we should have more of these.