{"id":1568,"date":"2013-02-04T08:27:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T08:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2013-02-04T08:27:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T08:27:58","slug":"dreams-and-green-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2013\/02\/dreams-and-green-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams and green entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend at my parents. The usual except for one thing, my dad telling me about his business plan for his passivehaus company he just founded. We talked for hours about everything about it. I might do some marketing for him, he\u2019s so bad at that (dad, you don\u2019t sell with specs you need a story). I\u2019m born in it they say.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s great to see him excited, taking risks. It\u2019s a great idea and I can\u2019t help but dream of doing the same in L.A. re-building entire blocks using the most of nature and technology. Damn, I wish I could especially for black people for whom social mobility<\/a> is being refused. At least have a home that doesn\u2019t make you want to go anywhere else and frankly, that is all  what is missing in beautiful Watts or South L.A.<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m kind of jealous of him. Sometimes I wish I was a 6\u2019 2 blonde dude with blue eyes born in the 50s. It\u2019s not even confidence at this point, it\u2019s another world. Like for him mine. I was telling him about Zynga and Notch, how nothing makes sense today from a company born in 2007 valued at $billions and already kind of dead to a dude releasing a non-finished game that made him last year $270 million. It\u2019s scary as fuck. Not the risk taken or the amount of efforts you put into something, but the fact that the outcome is highly unpredictable and rarely positive today. Add corporations agendas and lobbies, governments doing the same and your company dies you barely understood how or why. It\u2019s brutal.<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t feel that. He never experienced that. He just hears about it, looks at me not knowing what the fuck to think about. I know right? So when I see that he\u2019s investing all his money in his new venture, I\u2019m excited and I try not to delve into the negative aspect of the economic global world today. Right on dad! <\/p>\n

He\u2019s already getting enough negative energy in France where an entrepreneur starting something passed 60 is asked \u201cwhy would you do that? Just chill with your miserable retirement checks until you die in front of your TV\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m proud of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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