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Many business leaders seem like they're sort of caught between this long term responsibility, long term opportunity, and kind of near term business results that make grappling with this harder. Some businesses, microsoft, amazon, others, have enough of an indepth margin structure that they can actually, in fact, invest substantially on this. But then there's a lot of other companies we don't really have a lot of margin structureorli trying and we want to do things,. We're o maybe we're looking for a more green supply line, just what we can buy. And so therefore, part of what i think government needs to be doing in a classic kind of public private partnership is

“We should expect more volatility,” Reid Hoffman tells Rapid Response host Bob Safian in the first Need to Know session of the year, covering news and business topics impacting entrepreneurs right now. Reid and Bob discuss the implications of the Ukraine invasion, then dive into the pandemic-fueled troubles at Peloton, PayPal, and Meta, new climate-change urgencies — including Reid’s recent trip to Antarctica, and how Activision will be different after merging with Microsoft. Plus: pay transparency; the lessons of Theranos; and the business case for democracy. Cameos: John Doerr (author of Speed & Scale), Jeremy Farrar (Wellcome Trust), Daniella Ballou-Aares (Leadership Now Project).

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