Emerging innovators are served as much by humility and a deep sense of purpose as by technical know-how, observes Raj Kapoor, chief strategy officer at Lyft. He describes coming from a generation of entrepreneurs that emphasized entertainment, and challenges the next generation of change-makers to do better.
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