Alejandro Crawford: How to Empower Truly Rebellious Entrepreneurs to Do Good in the World


Author: Andrew Keen December 20, 2022 Duration: 33:50
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Alejandro Crawford: How to Empower Truly Rebellious Entrepreneurs to Do Good in the World

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Alejandro Crawford, CEO of RebelBase.

Alejandro Juárez Crawford, CEO, RebelBase: Alejandro leads RebelBase, the SaaS equipping people who understand pressing problems to collaborate on experiments of their own. He serves as Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Bard MBA in Sustainability and Global Lead for OSUN Social Entrepreneurship Practicum, which runs simultaneously on RebelBase on four continents. Previously, he led boutique social innovation consultancy Acceleration Group, and earned his BA at Cornell and his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He writes and speaks widely on democratizing social innovation. Recent publications include “An Ecosystem Framework for Credentialing Entrepreneurs,” from the Research Triangle Institute, and a chapter in the Federal Reserve’s Investing in America’s Workforce (Upjohn, 2018). He co-won the Roddenberry Award to document social ventures built using RebelBase.


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