Making impact markets the new standard in government procurement, interview w. Erdem Ovacik 🤝

Key insights:* Interview with Erdem Ovacik, Founder of Impact Markets, Founder and ex-CEO of Donkey Republic 🚲* Erdem is a big believer in impact markets - a marketplace where (primarily) governments pay companies and other organizations for a specific positive impact - or receive a payment in return for negative impact 💰* Impact start-ups today don’t fulfill their full potential in solving our various social and environmental challenges as governments don’t take all the start-ups’ positive and negative impacts into account 🏛️* Erdem gives the example of Donkey Republic, the start-up he founded, to show that they had a lot of positive impact, but it was not accounted for and they never got paid for it ⚖️Agenda for the chat:* Definition of the concept of impact markets 📊* Data issue for impact markets 📉* Donkey Republic case 🚲* Think about impact markets as an impact VC 💡* Erdem’s current project 🔍 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit impactvc.substack.com