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Quote by Pierre Omidyar
If you want to reach global scale—you can't do it with philanthropy capital.
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The quote argues that philanthropic funding alone is not enough to grow an effort to a worldwide scale. Reaching many countries or people requires a different or larger source of capital than charitable money can provide. It presents global expansion as a financial challenge, not as something philanthropy can accomplish by itself.
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- World Bank Blog, citing BusinessWeek interview
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