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Of the 300 global growth companies today
there is no doubt that many of the companies in the next 10 years
are going to be some of the largest in the world, no doubt.
You can see the trajectory.
I think it is critical we understand our role in society
and that performance and the link to society is incredibly important.
My philosophy certainly as the founder of the group
was that you build a business by developing people, people before profits.
It is a unique set of people, highly diverse
both within themselves and as a community.
And that diversity is the strength of the GGC.
The companies that are represented here have been able to change business models.
They have been able to change the status quo in technology
and thereby create success.
We have such a diverse groups sitting in that room
almost every industry is represented
almost every part of the world is represented.
It is a bridge between companies, between countries and a bridge to the future.
Maybe the most important thing that any company has to be able to do today
is learn really fast. And the way you learn really fast
is to have as many connections with the world as possible.
There is so much mutual interdependence today across nations,
across industries, across cultures.
And finding a way to navigate that, that is the challenge.
If we get it right, that is going to have an incredible impact
on the way that the world is heading.
The name of the game is change.
The global crisis has made the GGC companies far more relevant
because they have the innovation and the drive and the uniqueness
to find solutions to the global crisis. That is the DNA of the GGC.
I represent the GEMS Education
and for over 52 years we have been educating sort of young people.
Carlos Labarthe Executive President of Compartamos Bank
I'm Liu Jiren Chairman and CEO of Neusoft Group. We provide IT Solutions...
Wen-Hsiu Sandra I am president of the Kokusia Kogyo Holdings.
They come from very complex backgrounds.
They come from emerging markets.
They have been involved in disruptive technologies and innovation.
This whole platform has been designed to help people connect and to talk
and to find commonality.
It is a very dynamic community,
so every time I come here I get the new idea and also the stimulation.
We have to think now about how do we grow in a way that socially sustainable
and environmentally sustainable as well as economically sustainable
and so in a sense there is an opportunity to reinvent everything, redesign everything,
That is both incredibly exciting and pretty challenging.
I really believe, you know, my mission and the mission of the GGC
must be to create a better society through business.