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I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

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We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.
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I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.
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For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.
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My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
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