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Randy Komisar, author of The Monk and the Riddle, has called for a new philosophy of social entrepreneurship and a new way of applying the discipline to social missions. In this question-and-answer discussion during the Online Giving Marketplaces Conference, an event convened by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Komisar, now a venture capitalist with Kleiner Perkins, talks about the upside potential for marketplace mechanisms and markets for impacting the social space in which philanthropy traditionally operates. He addresses questions such as how to create an efficient capital market for philanthropy, how to marry program evaluation with powerful dynamics among online giving places, and the role of public policy in supporting socially related markets.
Randy Komisar is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Prior to joining the venture capital firm in 2005, he was an executive at numerous companies. Komisar was cofounder of Claris, CEO of LucasArts Entertainment and Crystal Dynamics, chief financial officer of Go, senior counsel for Apple Computer, a founding director of Tivo, and "virtual CEO" for WebTV, GlobalGiving, Mirra, and MondoMedia. He also works with social ventures, having advised GlobalGiving from its inception and helping to launch MightyLight. Komisar is a consulting professor of entrepreneurship at Stanford University, the author of The Monk and the Riddle, and the coauthor of an upcoming Harvard Business School Press book on planning innovation.
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