What are two reasons you should build a company?

Peter Sims is an award-winning entrepreneur and author. He is founder & a ‘sir’ of the BLKSHP, and his latest book is Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, which grew out of a collaboration with faculty at Stanford’s Institute of Design (the d.school), and his previous work in venture capital with Summit Partners, including as part of the team that established Summit’s European Office in London. He was also the coauthor with Bill George of the best-seller True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, a member of G.E.’s Innovation Advisory Panel, an Innosight Fellow, and a cofounder and Director of Fuse Corps, a social venture that places entrepreneurial leaders on year-long grassroots projects with mayors and governors to tackle some of America’s most pressing problems.