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The reason most people choose to be entrepreneurs
is because they want to have an impact.
They want to make some kind of impression.
Just as a quick digression: Impact
really has a couple key dimensions.
And what I mean is, you can have a very profound impact on
a small number of people and have a significant impact.
Or you can have a very small impact but on very
broad reach and also create quite an impact.
But in reality and one of the reasons
I think clean tech is so compelling,
is what a lot of entrepreneurs look to do is have world
changing ideas on a very large basis or platform.
And clean tech just flat out offers more of these opportunities
than just about any technology area that I can think of.
Or put in completely different terms:
Does the world need faster downloads?
Probably not, but we certainly appreciate them.
Do we need better social networking sites? I don't need them.
Do we often value them very highly? Of course. But we do need power.
We do need water.
We need these things to continue the quality of life.
So there really aren't small plays, or maybe niche plays,
but there really aren't that many small plays
in the whole clean tech environment.