Ryan Mickle Blogs Here

Dotherightthing.com was featured in the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle in a great story by Jessica Guynn about the growing trend of leveraging the web to create social value.

The fact is that people don’t work for money. If think you do, then you probably also think that you don’t have enough of it. Well, get used to it. As is captured by Jessica’s story, it is inspiring to watch (and be a member of) the new breed of web entrepreneurs aiming to do well by doing good.

Ryan Mickle’s life was the stuff young bourgeois dreams are made of. He had a lucrative career as a management consultant, drove a flashy car and lived a few blocks from the beach in an exclusive neighborhood on the Newport Beach (Orange County) peninsula.

Then a year ago he bought a lottery ticket. While jotting down all of the things he would do with the winnings, from spending more time with family and friends to making a real difference in the world, Mickle began to take stock of his life. He was earning a lot of money but was giving very little of himself. And he was the one who was poorer for it.

“I won the lottery that day by realizing that I had everything I needed to start living that life, right then and there,” Mickle said.

So Mickle ditched his high-paying job to brainstorm a new venture with friend Rod Ebrahimi.

Read the rest of the article here:

Responsibility is in their sites, Web entrepreneurs have an eye on social need — not personal greed

I hope that you enjoy reading the story. I’ll follow up soon with thoughts on the paradox of not working for money.

[SF Chronicle photo above by Mike Kane]

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