Daniel Hight
The inaugural profile is none other than Daniel Hight, founder of More Than Our Story.
More Than Our Story
Ryan Grant Little
Ryan Grant Little shares his story from serial entrepreneur to angel investor and food tech ambassador. He also talks about his charitable works with CanadaHelps.org and his humanitarian efforts with the ongoing Russian invasion in the Ukraine.
Highlights
I think of myself as an impact entrepreneur. I'm interested in solving problems that matter, that I care about.
Investment in plant-based or alternative proteins is the number one way to fight climate change.
Food is changing a lot. Food hasn't changed fundamentally for quite a long time. But the things that are happening now are incredible…I'm pretty convinced that you would really have to go out of your way to eat a hamburger that comes from a cow 20 years from now, maybe sooner.
The biggest challenge is not scientific, it's messaging… What are we going to call this thing? How do you describe this taste? How do you create a totally new category of food product?
Fundamentally, I was solving problems that aren't core to what matters to me. And I also don't think we really have that luxury to a great extent now… it's even harder now to try to do something that isn't moving the needle, or at least giving it a shot.
We saw the writing on the wall that this was really a pivotal moment that we could intervene and float all boats by creating a charity that does this work for other charities, or watch as these charities and Canadian's donations get sort of nickeled and dimed to death through transaction fees and setup costs…Today CanadaHelps is still very much the center of digital giving in Canada. We've processed something like $2.3 billion of charitable money for Canadian charities and still growing substantially.
When it happened on February 24th (the Russian invasion of the Ukraine) the thing that struck me first was the territorial defense force basically was born overnight… Imagine if tomorrow, if everyone in Canada became a soldier and how much equipment you would need… In the end, we were able to get thousands of refugees through to safety and get tons of medical equipment through to western Ukraine… I'm still very much involved, but these days I can do much more from a laptop than from a steering wheel.
RGL Strategic
A serial entrepreneur and consultant creating impact through social innovation, corporate social responsibility, and impact investing.
Services: Impact Investment Advisory, Venture Building, Strategy & Governance, Education & Talks
EVPA Impact Investing Podcast
In EVPA’s Sound Funding podcast, host Ryan Grant Little talks to leading European impact investors about how they power social and environmental impact to create a better world.
CanadaHelps.org
Canada’s best destination for donating and fundraising online.
Daniel
Daniel is an extremely curious person, a wealth of random knowledge and facts. Extremely passionate about a vast array of interests ranging from health to history, science to athletics, everything culinary and the list goes on. Trust us, you would want to be on his team for Trivial Pursuit.
Daniel is also years into his battle with brain cancer. He experienced a seizure while on a Zoom call at work in late 2020 and quite literally, his life changed within minutes. After his operation he started to talk about his story but had always known it was more than just him. From then, More Than Our Story became a PROJECT that has evolved into the starting point it is today.
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