He invested two hundred dollars in a growing business.

And so with patient capital from Acumen and other organizations,

The economy grows, government accumulates more resources, and the government can invest in infrastructure rather than infrastructure being a cause for economic growth.

In a situation where you have growth, you put the new money into this.

I'm going back now to, sort of, the explosive part of the Web in 1994, when it was growing 2,300 percent a year.

We had a 10 return on assets.

The amount of money you get.

Sure, we invest plenty in innovation.

As investors choose to become involved based on those terms, they can either take their rewards back as cash, or they can decide in advance to give those returns away to a non profit.

Investment in what?

2008 happens.

And investor C is like yeah, well you know, my two buddies, they look like legitimate guys, let me put my money there.

Investment

Now, who are they accountable to?

Malibu Equity and Investments.

Well their intention was to take these home equity loans and put that money to work, invest it in some way.

That could be, I don't know, animals. that could be cash, and what you need to do in order to make the economy grow is invest that capital into projects.

He valued what we already had at 5 million dollars.

They're valuing these assets at 1 million.

Investing in professional development is not a cost.

As investors flee

Investing.

Now, you're probably saying well, isn't there a way or maybe there's a way to get the best of both worlds of fund that could grow dynamically, that could create new shares when there was demand from investors.

Did you know that 40 percent of the wealth created in Africa is not invested here in Africa?

And this is the important thing.

In fact, if you've got good enough governance, there is no resource boom.

Growth of use will consume any energy or resources saved through conservation.

Malibu Equity and Investments. Roger Van Zant.

The rest goes to religion and higher education and hospitals, and that 60 billion dollars is not nearly enough to tackle these problems.

And I'll show you why that matters in a second.

Big investors.

He invested his money in stocks.

We are now faced with these questions to answer.

Investment has to be, in the new economy, protecting and nurturing the ecological assets on which our future depends.

If you all look after me, I will work hard. So please take care of me.

By the way before we go forward, this is one point I want to mention.

(Laughter) Here's some advice from one of the largest investors in the United States.

This may be the first intelligent thing he's done with his money.

Let me put that.

Just Manic Enough.

Consider it a capital investment.

I want investment.

That's it you are the person.

We had gone back to the till.

So how does that work?