At Participant, I am the board. I am the sole greenlight at the company. If something happened to me, that would be a problem. Jeffrey Skoll More Quotes by Jeffrey Skoll More Quotes From Jeffrey Skoll As a philanthropist, I give away a lot of money every year. Yet I thought there was a higher leverage to come in and create movies and TV shows that were actually able to do some good in the world. Jeffrey Skoll movies good money world My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway. Jeffrey Skoll movies important power people As an industry, the film industry is better than most. It's not perfect - I wish every company would carbon-offset their productions - but it's better than one would expect. Jeffrey Skoll i-wish better not-perfect wish Young entrepreneurs, in general, feel they're too busy running their companies, which I think is a mistake. But once they're older, you see much more of a propensity to be involved in philanthropy. Jeffrey Skoll feel you busy mistake My goal is to make the biggest difference possible in the world. I have only so many resources and so much time. Jeffrey Skoll possible difference time world It's a real concern of mine every day. What can we do? How much can we do? How quickly can we address all these important things? Jeffrey Skoll every-day day important real The goal of Participant is to tell stories that serve as catalysts for social change. With our television channel, we can bring those stories into the homes of our viewers every day. Jeffrey Skoll every-day day change television When I first moved to Hollywood from Silicon Valley, I had some misgivings. But I found that there were some advantages to being in Hollywood. And, in fact, some advantages to owning your own media company. And I also found that Hollywood and Silicon Valley have a lot more in common than I would have dreamed. Jeffrey Skoll your own company media I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world. Jeffrey Skoll living blessing house world I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I'm like, 'Oh. Things aren't quite as good.' Jeffrey Skoll city good like world Looking at America, which has so much wealth and potential and yet has so many deep-rooted problems, I think it gives us, as Canadians, an opportunity to be on the world stage on the climate change issue. Jeffrey Skoll climate-change change opportunity We gravitated to the idea of social entrepreneurs when it was a fairly nascent thing. We began to build the organization, focused on investing in and celebrating social entrepreneurs. Not long after that, we realized there was another opportunity to help bring them together and tell their stories. Jeffrey Skoll focused together opportunity long If you believe that people are basically good, and you remove obstacles, then they'll do the right thing by each other. Jeffrey Skoll good you believe people It's in my own interest - it's in everybody's interest - to have streets that are safe, children that are educated, and drug use that's diminished, crimes that are not affecting us. Jeffrey Skoll own educated my-own children My dream is that Participant is producing content in every language in every part of the world. Jeffrey Skoll content language dream world
