Emotional Capitalism | Alok Appadurai | TEDxPitic

Alok Appadurai proposes to include emotional capitalism as a business model.

How you impact the lives of everyone involved in your business as a success metric tied also to financial gain, is a way of doing business he aims for in Fed by Threads, his clothing company, and one he thinks should be adopted by more entrepreneurs in order to achieve a more just and balanced world and economy.

Alok is a social entrepreneur, Vegetarian and an animal rights advocate. But he wasn't always all those things.

As a long time entrepreneur he's been involved in several startups related to clean energy and other subjects mainly in New Jersey. Then he moved to Arizona and begun Fed by Threads.

[dharavasishth]

this talk is so amazing and helpful, I am surprised to see how less the views are

[jessicahollies]

Cool Video. I am curious how your views have evolved in the last three years since you gave this talk. :)

[herzogsbuick]

the american dream is equal access to success, wtf is this big house shit?