Rapid Response: Your company is a citizen – it can act like one, w/Baratunde Thurston

To have a successful business right now is to have built it on a foundation of systemic racism. That's kind of a historical fact. It doesn't mean your business is super actively racist; it means it's thrived in a system that was designed to be super actively racist.

The thing that I also say to my fellow business Americans is about this election. What we have before us is a choice not between a Democrat and a Republican; I think we have a choice between an empathetic human being and a fully self-interested entity. We have a choice between right and wrong in a basic sense.

Before you go marching out into the world, do an internal assessment. You say black lives matter—check your board, check your hiring practices, check your compensation schemes, and just understand yourself as a business. Where are you on this issue?

Baratunde Thurston explains the four principles of what it means to citizen.

The big tech platforms are saving us and destroying us at the same time.

One thing I've learned is when you have great sound, you dominate Zoom. You just crush it. It doesn't even matter what you say.