Doing Well by Doing Good: The Lesson That Took 15 Years to Land

This is a different kind of episode. Every solo I've done has been about a framework — a thesis, a system, an argument. This one is about a person. Dan Hesse was my CEO at Sprint and became my mentor. He taught me that business and community are not separate things. I understood it as a value. It took me fifteen years to understand it as a design principle. This is the story of what I watched Dan build, what happened when it was taken away, and how losing it shaped everything I'm building now — from Keystone to the Social Venture Studio. The written version lives in my Field Note on Substack. https://substack.com/@kevinmcginnis101/note/p-199455241?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=539sc6