When a Business Exists to be More Than a Profit Generator
Once a friend asked a senior leader at Rocket Internet, "how did you manage to assemble such an elite team of ex-consultants from the most renowned firms and fresh grads from the most reputed universities to work in your ventures?" The leader simply replied, "Money." For the author, there was not a sadder moment since joining this global firm than upon hearing this little anecdote. It is not only he who is not understood, but a whole group of people, that whole group of "ex-consultants from the most renowned firms and fresh grads from the most reputed universities" that was just ruthlessly labelled as "shallow" with one word.