“You cannot do good if you’re not financially sustainable. ” — Leslie Maasdorp What does it take to build a development finance institution from scratch
“Ideas are free. Do a Google, and you’ll come up with ten great ideas in the financial sector. The idea is to convince me, as
Venture capital markets are supposed to be efficient. Capital is supposed to flow toward the highest-quality opportunities, and skilled investors are supposed to identify and
“We have to move the power and the decision making of what needs to be done much closer to the people and hold people accountable
“Is Impact Investing a disaster? Is what happened at BlackRock and elsewhere in the US the end of the impact story? I don’t think so.
“You cannot just go, whoops. I provided too much power there. The needs are bouncing in real time, and the intermittency created by renewables is
“Building a more sustainable and a more inclusive economy is not just a moral or an ecological imperative. It’s also a unique opportunity to create
“Brazil is a tropical agriculture ecosystem, and when you start to understand the particularities of this, you start to understand some opportunities. In Brazil, we
“As I’ve spent more time in agriculture, I’ve started questioning where the ‘move fast, break things’ mentality actually fits in a physical world of investing.
“I didn’t know why they hired me until maybe ten years later, when my manager said, ‘I hired people for what they can learn, not
