An interview with Muhammad Yunus
As the interviewer says, Muhamad Yunus is the “godfather” of social enterprise. With a Nobel Peace Prize, Grameen Bank – the leading example of micro-finance – and innumerable other social businesses to his name, this is a man worth listening too.
So here’s Liam Black, a chief protagonist on the UK social enterprise scene, talking to Professor Yunus at the recent Good Deals social investment conference in the UK.
Thanks for sharing this Drue. I was honoerud to meet Muhammad Yunus last year at a lecture and book signing he gave last year at London School of Economics. I can honestly say that the experience was one of the most inspiring that I’ve ever had. Mr Yunus is someone who has had the courage and the strength to go after and achieve his dreams, yet when you meet him in person, he is so gracious, humble and down-to-earth. He epitomises Zen, because when you meet him, you feel like you’ve met someone who has achieved a sense of inner calm and found peace within himself. But the most inspiring point is that Muhammad Yunus challenges the traditional notions of entrepreneurship and what it means to be successful. He shows you that the success of a business can be measured through more than just profitability alone, that there is another metric for success that is far more valuable simply worldly, monetary gain