MI117: Impact Investing & Partnerships w/ Zachary Conway & Adrian Grenier
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:03.0 | So I've been doing environmental work for a long time. |
| 0:05.5 | I've started at least two nonprofits. |
| 0:08.8 | So I've always come at life as wanting to help, wanting to be constructive and do something |
| 0:16.5 | good in the world. |
| 0:18.0 | And it wasn't until recently that I realized at the end of the day, nonprofits are |
| 0:21.8 | great. They do serve a purpose. But in a world that's run by money, a way to really make change |
| 0:27.3 | is through money. On today's show, I chat with Zach Conway and Adrian Grenier about their |
| 0:36.1 | partnership between Seeds and DoContra Ventures, |
| 0:39.1 | what impact investing is and why it's important, what do Contra looks for in companies wanting |
| 0:44.0 | to raise capital, how Zach and Adrian ensure their goals are aligned, and much, much more. |
| 0:49.5 | Zach Conway is the founder and CEO of Seeds Investor, which helps financial advisors |
| 0:53.8 | deliver value-based |
| 0:55.2 | investing portfolios to investors who want solid financial returns from investments that |
| 1:00.0 | align with their values. Adrian Gronier is co-founder of DuContra Ventures, which blends impact |
| 1:05.3 | investing with transformative experiences and personal development. He's better known to audiences |
| 1:10.2 | worldwide as a producer and actor |
| 1:12.5 | who has appeared in more than 40 movies and television programs, including HBO's entourage, |
| 1:18.4 | Netflix's clickbait, in movies such as Drive Me Crazy and The Devil Wears Prada. |
| 1:23.2 | If you've been listening to the show for a while, you know that we've been searching for a co-host. |
| 1:28.3 | And a couple weeks ago, I mentioned that we did find one. And his name is Clay, and he's going to be starting to co-host the show, starting next week with an episode with Simon Erickson. And then weeks after that, you're not going to hear a ton from me on the millennial investing show. I'll still be here from time to time co-hosting, but for the most part, Clay is going to be the main host of |
| 1:48.6 | millennial investing going forward. You'll still have me as the host of the real estate investing |
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