What happens when disaster strikes your community and the local workers lose their jobs? If you’re one of my oldest friends, Ron Blitzer, you roll up your sleeves and raise $180,000 in 5 days. From home, of course.

Find out how this serial entrepreneur and I first went into business together, and how he started his international operation from an office over his garage. We talk about fund-raising, $3,000 fax machines, and the sad truth that we are both well-meaning but myopic white guys in a nation of systemic racism.

Yeah, we get into it. Enjoy.

Episode Notes

Ron’s links:

• Linkedin profile

Stuff we talk about:

“In the mid-1980s, when fax machines first caught the attention of small companies, many buyers chose stripped-down machines because that was all they could afford. Fax machines that did little more than perform basic functions cost $2,500 to $3,000.”  https://www.inc.com/magazine/19911001/4883.html

• The history of fax machines
• Whole Planet Foundation
• Be Green Packaging plant in South Carolina
• Montecito Debris Flow, January 2018

The 93108fund:

• Website
• On Instagram
• The original 2018 fundraising effort
• The 2020 restart

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