Jeff Skoll on Trusting the Good in People

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-05-29 13:29:00 UTC
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Last week, the BBC released an interview with Jeff Skoll, the founder of the Skoll Foundation, Participant Media, the recent Skoll Urgent Threats Fund, and, back in the day, eBay. I really like this interview because of how much time is spent on Jeff Skoll's work and experience with eBay. It's fascinating to see how that experience impacted him, in the obvious financial way, but moreover in vindicating trust in people:

"If you give people the opportunity to be good, they will, for the most part...At times we underestimate the goodness in people."

Good message for the weekend. Listen to the full interview here.

(P.S. Is the interviewer an ass or is that just me?)

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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