I heard about Prison Entrepreneurship on the Catalyst podcast.
One hundred thousand dollars in sales per week ? 90% net margin ? 90%
repeat business ? On an investment banking teaser, this company profile
would have generated widespread interest among the investment
community?had the core product not been crack cocaine. A large
percentage of inmates come to prison as seasoned entrepreneurs, having
run highly successful enterprises such as drug rings and gangs.
repeat business ? On an investment banking teaser, this company profile
would have generated widespread interest among the investment
community?had the core product not been crack cocaine. A large
percentage of inmates come to prison as seasoned entrepreneurs, having
run highly successful enterprises such as drug rings and gangs.
They know how to manage others to get things done. They are passionate, intelligent and willing to take risks. Even the most unsophisticated drug dealers inherently understand business concepts such as competition, profitability, risk management and the development of proprietary sales channels. What if these influential leaders ran legitimate companies?
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“What if these influential leaders ran legitimate companies?”
How many legitimate companies have a 90% net margin, $100,000 in sales a week, 90% repeat business? This is the battle that those working in this field face. It scares me to think that I have really smart kids in my class that could do amazing things in so many fields, but will choose running with a gang, selling drugs, etc. because that’s the business that so many of them are being brought up in. It’s heartbreaking to sit and basically know which kids will turn to this way of life, unless someone can be the hands and feet of Christ to them, and they’re only 8 and 9 year olds. I love my job and I feel God’s pleasure while I do it, but I also feel the pain and suffering of Christ on the cross. Please keep calling the people of God to live missionally/incarnationally. This is the only way we will see “these influential leaders run legitimate companies.”