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“Have faith in your ideas. Listen a lot, but in the end, trust your gut feelings. I have made decisions that in retrospect, were bad decisions because I trusted reputable people with impressive pedigrees.”

I never met someone with so much drive and passion. Paul Allard is an evangelist dressed in a suit.

He floated his first company during the craze tech bubble in the 2000s. Short-selling, pump, and dump. He went through this. But in 2017 he decided to create the first impact rating agency.

I wanted to interview this Canadian folk who is “trying to do something” as he puts it. “We had great technology, but it didn’t help society at all”

“If you look at biodiversity, income inequalities, or pollution, our current economic system is not performing well.“ But how do you measure those externalities?

From its humble beginnings to the failed experiment of the Impak coin, Paul takes us behind the scenes of his entrepreneurial journey with a lot of generosity.

→ What is impact and how to measure it?

→ You should read Brief history of equality by Thomas Picketty and Patrick Vivray’s "reconsiderer la richesse" ("reconsider wealth")

→ And don’t forget, trust your guts 

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