A Little Delusional for Good

After 15 years of trying to help ordinary people use money and business to solve big problems, I’m still unreasonable enough to believe we can change the world.

The other day, a person I love and respect accused me of being “delusional.”

He meant it as an insult.

It landed like one at the time, especially knowing his intent.

As I've reflected on the interaction since, I’ve realized that I am, in fact, a bit delusional. Fifteen years ago, I stepped into the second half of my career with a soft goal to make a difference. Within a few years, I hardened that goal into one I still consider a literal goal today: “to help solve the world's biggest problems: climate change, global health and social injustice/poverty.”

For 15 years, I've been writing, speaking and producing content and events to highlight how we can use our money for good—even as ordinary, everyday humans. We don't have to be wealthy philanthropists to make a difference.

Over those years, I've had opportunities to interview billionaires, movie and television celebrities, an Olympic medalist and many hundreds of CEOs and founders, from the smallest businesses to large corporations—always talking about how to use money and business for good.

We're not done. In fact, at times, it feels like the progress has been one step forward and two steps back! The problems I set out to solve a dozen years ago are still problems. But I didn't think I'd solve them singlehandedly in a year or two. I knew this was a decades-long process of growing movements.

Today, I think of myself as being a bit beyond one-third of my timeline. Progress has been slow, but momentum is building. The SuperCrowd community is growing. By some measures, dramatically. Our TV audience has grown tenfold in three years. Our paid subscribers have consistently grown about 80 percent per year with no sign of slowing down (thank you, Impact Members)!

More importantly, our work at the SuperCrowd (credit to Chandan and the SuperCrowd community, more than me) makes an impact.

Just last year, we featured 69 companies raising capital on Superpowers for Good, produced six live pitch events with about two dozen presenting companies, and surfaced roughly 600 impact investment opportunities through our Monday “New Impact Offerings” posts.

We published a full 2025 Impact Report because accountability matters to me. The report is imperfect—a first attempt to measure what we can, estimate what we must, and acknowledge what we still can’t prove. The evidence leads us to conclude that somewhere between half a million and a million dollars of impact capital was catalyzed by our work. A tiny fraction of the market, but infinitely more than I could deploy myself.

So, am I delusional in thinking that I can help change the world? Absolutely. I was one in 7 billion when I started, and now 1 in 8 billion humans on the planet. I'm delusional. But let's be clear, the only people who ever change the world for the better are (at least a little bit) delusional.

Are you a bit delusional, too? What big, good, unreasonable thing are you working to make real?

And, yes, I’m workshopping “DelusionalCrowd.”