What idea do you have that has a massive impact on people?
That's not you.
And imagine if you didn't start that.
In 2011, Dale Partridge had this kind of interesting idea.
He wanted to create a business that would inspire generosity, that would inspire social good.
So he joined with a couple of other people to start a company called what they call the Cause art movement.
Sevenly would create these seven day cause campaigns online.
And they would invite customers to buy things, very often t shirts that then turned around and gave $7 out of the purchase price to a charity that was designated that week.
It was a bold idea.
It was very complex to actually make happen, and they were giving away a huge percentage of the purchase price to actually try and pull this thing off.
Flash forward four years later, they have now raised more than $4 million to give away to more than a million people who've been helped through a wide variety of charities and foundations.
And Dale has since moved on and is really focusing on his newer ventures and really diving into entrepreneurship and helping people with that process.
So I had a chance to sit down with him when I was out in Portland, Oregon, over the summer.
I actually drove down to Bend, where he lives, and we spent some time in his pretty stunning new recording studio.
He talked about a wide variety of things, from his decision to move to bend out in the middle of nowhere and away from the madness of sort of like, big time entrepreneurship and vc packed entrepreneurship, to what he values in life and to what he thinks are the missing pieces and his extraordinary focus on people as the centerpiece of everything that he does.
So I hope you enjoy this conversation.
I'm Jonathan Fields.
This is good life project, hanging out here in a semi lit room in a corner of Bend, Oregon, with Dale Partridge.
What are we doing in this weird little place?
He's like, dude, come meet me at this place.