Chris Hare

When he came to me, he said, it was, how do I, I have one narrative that I use with private equity, another that I use with venture capital, another that I use with board roles when I'm interviewing. And then I've got my hippie yoga community and my nonprofit work.

When he came to me, he said, it was, how do I, I have one narrative that I use with private equity, another that I use with venture capital, another that I use with board roles when I'm interviewing. And then I've got my hippie yoga community and my nonprofit work.

Yeah, that's a great question. Look, we've honestly had hundreds of thousands of challenges and they can really span from existential through to incidental. So. Existential, for example, was just identifying our purpose. What are we? We're not quite a grassroots organization. We put these races together. We raise quite a bit of money. Are we in a grassroots NGO? Are we an events provider?

Yeah, that's a great question. Look, we've honestly had hundreds of thousands of challenges and they can really span from existential through to incidental. So. Existential, for example, was just identifying our purpose. What are we? We're not quite a grassroots organization. We put these races together. We raise quite a bit of money. Are we in a grassroots NGO? Are we an events provider?

Are we an anti-slavery charity? And just figuring that out in the early days was really tough. We've had other stuff since, for example, we had one event that was literally received a threat from ISIS at the peak of the ISIS terror wave in the 2010s. And we had to make a spot decision whether to cancel our event or to continue it.

Are we an anti-slavery charity? And just figuring that out in the early days was really tough. We've had other stuff since, for example, we had one event that was literally received a threat from ISIS at the peak of the ISIS terror wave in the 2010s. And we had to make a spot decision whether to cancel our event or to continue it.

So you have these sort of momentary hurdles and you have the existential ones. The way I always think about it is like climbing a mountain. When you climb a mountain and let's say it's a totally novel new mountain that hasn't really been climbed before, you identify an approach from where the perspective that you have, you'll of course miss things.

So you have these sort of momentary hurdles and you have the existential ones. The way I always think about it is like climbing a mountain. When you climb a mountain and let's say it's a totally novel new mountain that hasn't really been climbed before, you identify an approach from where the perspective that you have, you'll of course miss things.

And then you attempt to summit or wherever you attempt an approach. And often there are obstacles and maybe you get about halfway and then there's an ice field and It's insurpassable, and so you turn around and you reevaluate your approach. But fundamentally, the goal is the same, which is to summit that mountain.

And then you attempt to summit or wherever you attempt an approach. And often there are obstacles and maybe you get about halfway and then there's an ice field and It's insurpassable, and so you turn around and you reevaluate your approach. But fundamentally, the goal is the same, which is to summit that mountain.

And sometimes you get really close, and you're so close that it's very tempting to carry on. But again, there's some kind of threat, big crevasse or whatever, that just isn't worth the risk. And of course, if you're very lucky and if you're very good at it, you do summit the mountain. But as any mountaineer will tell you, when you get to the top of a peak, what's the first thing you see?

And sometimes you get really close, and you're so close that it's very tempting to carry on. But again, there's some kind of threat, big crevasse or whatever, that just isn't worth the risk. And of course, if you're very lucky and if you're very good at it, you do summit the mountain. But as any mountaineer will tell you, when you get to the top of a peak, what's the first thing you see?

Another peak that you want to find. There's this sort of aspect to a charity where I would describe, for example, an ISIS threat to a group of students in a particular city trying to fight slavery. as a similar situation to a crevasse on that mountain analogy versus what is the actual mountain we're climbing is more existential and more akin to. What is the 24-hour race?

Another peak that you want to find. There's this sort of aspect to a charity where I would describe, for example, an ISIS threat to a group of students in a particular city trying to fight slavery. as a similar situation to a crevasse on that mountain analogy versus what is the actual mountain we're climbing is more existential and more akin to. What is the 24-hour race?

What's its role in the world? If that makes sense, Vince.

What's its role in the world? If that makes sense, Vince.

Yeah, let me expand a little bit on that analogy by going into the realm of the absurd. So in 2011, I took a gap year after graduating high school. And while all my friends were heading on trips to Phuket and various destinations in Asia. I got on a train and then a plane and arrived in the capital city of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, where I met a team of 14 in total seasoned explorers.

Yeah, let me expand a little bit on that analogy by going into the realm of the absurd. So in 2011, I took a gap year after graduating high school. And while all my friends were heading on trips to Phuket and various destinations in Asia. I got on a train and then a plane and arrived in the capital city of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, where I met a team of 14 in total seasoned explorers.

And then we went all the way out to the west of Mongolia and we began to attempt to walk across the Gobi Desert. And I was young. I think I just hadn't turned 18 yet. I was 17. And as we began this journey, the Gobi desert itself, sometimes for whatever reason back then, the GPS signal wouldn't work. Now navigation was a little bit.

And then we went all the way out to the west of Mongolia and we began to attempt to walk across the Gobi Desert. And I was young. I think I just hadn't turned 18 yet. I was 17. And as we began this journey, the Gobi desert itself, sometimes for whatever reason back then, the GPS signal wouldn't work. Now navigation was a little bit.