Welcome back to Office Hours. It's a blessing to be here. I'm David Meltzer with the

blessed host that I have. It's been an extraordinary episode with extraordinary people.

Might as well finish up with a clean up hitter that's going to hit it out of the park.

Probably one of the greatest entrepreneurs I've ever met. Jeff Hoffman, the chairman

of Global Entrepreneurship Network, former founder and price line. But he is most

importantly a mentioner friend. Welcome to Office Hours. Jeff Hoffman.

Thank you, David. I just wish I was there in person, but I had a little trouble in the Middle East.

So thanks for having me remotely. Well, I know with Jeff Hoffman in the Middle East,

we'll have peace in the Middle East before he comes home. That's amazing. Anyway,

it's funny because you and I have a similar perspective of entrepreneurship. We both believe

entrepreneurs are going to save the world. I believe that even sustainable practices are only to give

the entrepreneurs enough time to solve all the problems that are ruining our environment, etc.

You see entrepreneurship as the same global force that I do. What are some of the aspects through

your successful journey of entrepreneurship that has led you to this valuation of entrepreneurship

to the extent that it actually can save the world? Sure. You matter of fact, my fundamental

belief is if you want to make the world a better place, unleash armies of entrepreneurs

because they are the ones that make things better and fix problems. And our organization today,

I run a, I'm a chairman of a nonprofit called the Global Entrepreneurship Network. We're on the

ground in 200 countries, David, teaching people how to help themselves. So that attitude comes from

the fact that the more I traveled, like I said, I was just down and prune that I went to Palestine

and then Israel, add the more I travel around those 200 countries, the more you see that intelligence

is equally spread across the human race, but opportunities, not resources or not. So when you start

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