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Wow. I’m not really sure where to start here.

Every once in a while (and it seems, more frequently lately), I’m reminded in a powerful way of why we started eduFire. Thinking all the way back to that first blog post and how far we’ve come since then, it’s really inspiring. But it’s easy at times to lose sight of why we’re working so hard and just who it is that we’re working for.

And then I see a message like this posted to our forums and it reminds me all over again.

My favorite companies of all time are the ones that have created economic opportunities for millions of people. eBay of course. Google which has empowered many people to make money through AdSense. Etsy more recently.

But when I see something like this I’m just completely blown away. To think that someone halfway around the world whose home was destroyed in an 8.0 magnitude earthquake might be able to get back on their feet, at least in part, by teaching Mandarin on eduFire…well, that pretty much leaves me speechless.

The thing is, I have an overwhelming feeling that this is only the beginning. I’m reading a fantastic book right now called The Power of Unreasonable People which has the tagline “How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World”. And that’s exactly what we’re trying to do here at eduFire. Develop a market that will change the world. Give hope and opportunities to the BOP. And advance the goal of giving everyone an increasingly equal chance at a world-class education.

Umair wrote something today that rang completely true to me:

Now is the time for revolutionaries to step up and build something better, something more real, and something greater.

There will probably never – at least in our lifetimes – be an opportunity for total economic reinvention this tremendous.

Or this meaningful. Because that’s what it’s really about – not shareholder value, money, or “competitive advantage”.

But doing something that means something.

It’s my deepest hope and prayer that what we’re doing here at eduFire is something that truly means something.

And by the way, I’ve never been more excited for a language lesson than I am for my Mandarin lesson tomorrow with Lily.

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