Your plan B needs a plan B, w/Crisis Text Line founder Nancy Lublin
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
To succeed, entrepreneurs need a good idea, timing, money, luck. But more than anything, they need the ability to generate an endless supply of Plans B, C, and D when Plan A doesn't come through. Nancy Lublin has scaled three successful not-for-profits: Dress for Success, DoSomething.org and Crisis Text Line. She shares the tenacious approach to technology and financing that have helped these organizations scale.
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| 0:31.2 | I'll see you on the other side. I went to see Ibsons a |
| 0:34.5 | doll's house at the theater. Tenth row center sitting to my left, Donald |
| 0:39.1 | Trump. |
| 0:40.1 | Congratulations. Sitting to his left, some skinny blonde I didn't recognize. |
| 0:44.0 | And he's eating milk duts, like shoving them in his mouth fistful at a time |
| 0:48.0 | and I look at him and I'm like, |
| 0:49.0 | do you need to own the company or are those available in the lobby? |
| 0:52.0 | And he says, oh, ha ha, grabs the box from the skinny woman next to him and hands them to me, |
| 0:55.8 | because I don't think she eats anything with tofu and water. |
| 0:57.6 | And so I eat the milk, and we strike up a conversation. |
| 1:00.0 | And he says, so what do you do? |
| 1:02.0 | That's Nancy Loveland. And what do you do? That's Nancy Loveland. |
| 1:03.4 | And what does she do? |
| 1:05.1 | She builds non-profits the way Donald Trump |
| 1:07.4 | builds skyscrapers. |
| 1:08.9 | Her organizations are huge, tremendous, big lead stuff, believe me. |
| 1:14.0 | When Nancy accidentally sent Nax to Trump in that theater, she had just launched her first |
| 1:18.3 | non-profit, Dress for Success. |
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