Browder: For-profit companies achieve 10x the impact of non-profits
Josh Browder · Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · May 18, 2026 · at 16:40
Josh Browder, founder of DoNotPay and Browder Capital, recalls how Marc Andreessen persuaded him to build DoNotPay as a commercial company rather than a non-profit.
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“And Mark convinced me that the biggest organizations are for-profit entities, and you can have 10 times the impact of a for-profit company because the incentives are aligned.”
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