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Jeffrey Skoll
Canadian
Businessman
Born:
Jan 16
,
1965
Change
Every
Good
People
World
You
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We remain committed to inspiring and compelling social change to the world's most pressing problems through the power of great stories and engaging our audiences to take meaningful action.
Jeffrey Skoll
Great
Change
World
Problems
Power
Action
Our
Pressing
Remain
Through
Inspiring
Take
Great Stories
Most
Audiences
Committed
Stories
Social
Social Change
Meaningful
Engaging
Compelling
By 2007, 85% of Americans cited climate change as an important issue, compared with just 33% in prior years. The phrase we invented, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' became a part of the lexicon.
Jeffrey Skoll
Truth
Change
Important
Cited
Phrase
Invented
Part
Important Issue
Became
Prior
Climate
Climate Change
Issue
Years
American
Just
Compared
Inconvenient
As a philanthropist, I give away a lot of money every year. Yet I thought there was a higher leverage to come in and create movies and TV shows that were actually able to do some good in the world.
Jeffrey Skoll
Good
World
Money
Thought
Year
Every
Philanthropist
TV
TV Shows
Able
Some
Give
Higher
Come
Were
Lot
Movies
Create
Shows
Away
Actually
Leverage
My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.
Jeffrey Skoll
Politics
Big
More
Tend
George
Big Fan
George W
Than
Fan
Republican
Centrist
Views
My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.
Jeffrey Skoll
People
Will
Power
Important
Entertaining
Reach
Message
Messages
Make
Course
Sure
Still
Goal
Wanted
Movies
Them
Include
Watch
Leverage
As an industry, the film industry is better than most. It's not perfect - I wish every company would carbon-offset their productions - but it's better than one would expect.
Jeffrey Skoll
Better
Not Perfect
Wish
Every
Would
Perfect
Most
Industry
Expect
Than
Productions
Company
Film
Film Industry
Young entrepreneurs, in general, feel they're too busy running their companies, which I think is a mistake. But once they're older, you see much more of a propensity to be involved in philanthropy.
Jeffrey Skoll
You
Mistake
Young
Older
Busy
Think
Too
Philanthropy
Once
Running
See
Propensity
General
More
Entrepreneurs
Feel
Involved
Which
Much
Companies
At Participant, I am the board. I am the sole greenlight at the company. If something happened to me, that would be a problem.
Jeffrey Skoll
Me
Problem
Sole
Would
Would-Be
Something
Participant
Am
Happened
Board
Company
It's a real concern of mine every day. What can we do? How much can we do? How quickly can we address all these important things?
Jeffrey Skoll
Day
Every Day
Important
Important Things
Every
Address
Mine
Concern
How
Real
How Much
Quickly
Much
Things
The goal of Participant is to tell stories that serve as catalysts for social change. With our television channel, we can bring those stories into the homes of our viewers every day.
Jeffrey Skoll
Day
Change
Every Day
Every
Channel
Our
Those
Television
Tell
Participant
Goal
Stories
Social
Social Change
Viewers
Homes
Serve
Bring
I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I'm like, 'Oh. Things aren't quite as good.'
Jeffrey Skoll
Good
World
City
Like
Around
Mexico
Mexico City
Quite
Oh
Where
Places
Pakistan
Things
We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories.
Jeffrey Skoll
Together
Opportunity
Organization
Long
Build
Focused
Tell
Entrepreneurs
Investing
Idea
Fairly
Another
Nascent
Began
Celebrating
Stories
After
Social
Them
Realized
Help
Thing
Bring
If you believe that people are basically good, and you remove obstacles, then they'll do the right thing by each other.
Jeffrey Skoll
Good
You
Do The Right Thing
People
Remove
Believe
Other
Right Thing
Obstacles
The Right Thing
Then
Each
Right
Thing
Basically
It's in my own interest - it's in everybody's interest - to have streets that are safe, children that are educated, and drug use that's diminished, crimes that are not affecting us.
Jeffrey Skoll
Own
Everybody
Crimes
Diminished
My Own
Safe
Educated
Affecting
Children
Interest
Us
Use
Streets
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