During a speech that explored economic history dating back to the mid-1800s, Joe Mechlinksi drove home a point about value-informed innovation by paraphrasing a quote from the author Richard Bach.
“We teach what we need to learn and create what we need to heal,” Mechlinksi said from the stage at City Garage in what is now called Baltimore Peninsula.
The Baltimore-raised entrepreneur and investor, who wrote the New York Times-bestselling “Grow Regardless,” delivered the keynote for last Tuesday’s demo day for the 11th accelerator cohort of the Conscious Venture Lab (CVL).
Mechlinksi’s message echoed much of the enthusiasm throughout the event, and underscored the accelerator’s primary aim: to support ventures that embody what Jeff Cherry, who leads CVL parent the Novella Center for Entrepreneurship, calls “stakeholder capitalism.”
