James Perry

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James Reed: all about business · 89. The business decision you'll thank yourself for in 5 years | James Perry · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

government printing money essentially to keep the financial system afloat.

But when I realised that actually the effect of quantitative easing was as a massive wealth transfer from the taxpayer to the wealthy, because it inflated asset prices, and the bankers seemed to get away with it scot-free.

And I'd had this disquiet previous around the externalities of this idea.

I just couldn't, I just had this compulsion to explore and understand more deeply what was going on, because I had this strong sense that it was going to lead to calamity from both a planetary point of view, but also from a human point of view in terms of our well-being.

And what I learned, well, I learned a lot of things, but one of the things I learned was that it wasn't the fault of the people who were, you know, there's great people.

These large corporations are extraordinary things.

They do incredible things.

They bring us our food in the most amazing way, so cheaply.

You know, our technology is extraordinary.

So it's not the fault of the people running the thing, but there's a glitch somewhere.

So I just wanted to understand it.

So I found myself in 2010,

in San Francisco because there was a conference.

I was told the best place to go is this conference called SOCAP, which stood for social capital markets.

How can capital markets serve society rather than society serving capital markets?

And so I found myself in San Francisco and it was a bit kind of, it was like the early days and it was run by this crazy,

sort of veteran from the 1960s with his wild eyes and his crazy hair from california called kevin jones who was a wonderful guy and um and we so it was all quite glamorous you know food trucks like we were in fort mason these wonderful wharves that went out into san francisco harbor overlooking alcatraz it was all quite exciting and in a theater uh at this conference where there was only a few hundred people and it was all quite chaotic um there was this chap called jay cohen gilbert

and he got up in this theater with about 80 or 100 of us in it, and he told us about this idea he'd had called a B Corporation.

And they just started in the US, and they had about 200 companies, and they were all sort of small social enterprises, mostly in California or the East Coast.

And it was a eureka moment.

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