Changing the World, One Startup at a Time - Jon Dishotsky, Giant Ventures

Entrepreneurs today are waking up to the fact that we don’t need more photosharing apps or productivity tools. We need to solve societal issues”, says Jon Dishotsky, Investment Partner at Giant Ventures and our latest guest on The Switch, #notanotherpodcast.Jon believes that “all the change will come from startups and entrepreneurs who are scaling rapid new technologies to address these problems”. And as it exists to build and back purpose-driven companies solving the world’s biggest problems, this is exactly where Giant Ventures deploys its capital.Since we have to make massive changes, especially when it comes to a problem like the climate crisis, the question is, do entrepreneurs have the strength to bear it all? Join us for the new episode of The Switch Podcast and find out more through this fascinating discussion with Jon Dishotsky. Jon is an early-stage investor and mentor focusing on pre-seed and seed. Before Giant Ventures, he was the co-founder and CEO of Starcity, a global co-living company with locations on multiple continents, hundreds of employees and that raised over $50M in venture capital. Jon has some great insights on impact investing and ways to “pair positive capitalism with widgets that are meaningful and good”.