Marshall here, welcome back to the realignment.

Today's guest is Arun Gupta,

the venture capitalist and CEO of the Noble Reach Foundation, which brings together the brightest minds of government, industry and academia to tackle societal problems.

He has a new book out this week. Venture Meets Mission, aligning people, purpose, and profit to innovate and transform society.

I've been interviewing all sorts of people on this podcast for almost five years, and more and

more I've come to believe that actually solving the country's big geopolitical, technological,

and economic challenges actually requires different parts and actors of our society to get out of their

silos and work together in a mission driven way.

So, Arun's thoughts in this conversation in the book on how business, government,

society as a whole can work together a right up my alley.

A theme of yesterday's episode of Joshua Green about the rise of

left populism was that the past decade or so in our political system have really

been defined by justified anger about the status quo. Those actors and politicians most

elevated by this moment have been those who are best able to channel that

frustration and that feeling. My thesis moving forward though is that this next decade

needs folks who can also internalize his critiques, internalize the anger,

internalize the problems that were ignored for too long, but then actually go forward and build

something to address the actual problems themselves. So moving forward in this

podcast I'll be consistently returning to this mission-centric theme.

Huge thanks to the Foundation for American Innovation to supporting the work of this podcast.

Arun Gupta, welcome to the realignment.

Marshall, thanks for having me.

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