Can business make the world a better place?: YADIN KAUFMANNat at TEDxRoma

Venture capitalist, co-founded Sadara Ventures, the first fund targeting investments in Palestinian technology companies, and Tmura, The Israeli Public Service Venture Fund, which is a leading non-profit organization in the Israel high-tech sector. Business creates wealth. But - it can also produce social change and help make our world a better place. Just as 'Rome wasn't built in a day', it will take time to build a Palestinian knowledge-based economy. Palestine can become the next 'start-up nation' -- and the high-tech engine of the Arab world. And just as technology entrepreneurs transformed Israel, maybe they will transform the region.

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