Pat Brown: Diffusion of responsibility prevents valuable innovation from happening
Pat Brown · Impossible Foods: Pat Brown · May 11, 2020 · at 1:01:37
Impossible Foods founder Pat Brown reflects on why he left his Stanford professorship to build a plant-based meat company despite feeling unqualified.
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“I think that's the most important thing, and I feel like it's the one thing that, that keeps a lot of valuable things from happening, is people feel like, you know, someone else must be, this is someone else's job to solve. You know, why would I be the person to do this? I'm so unqualified. You know, because I was unqualified. Well, the answer is, someone's got to do it, and I feel like a lot of good things would happen if people were more willing to just say, I'm going to take responsibility to solve this problem”
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