HERE’S TO THE BUSINESS OF BEING HUMAN
Jack is a generous guy, and you could see that from the start. Aware of others and his place in the room, emotionally attuned, successful, too. He is ex-military, served in Afghanistan, now an Inc. 5000 entrepreneur—and, at the time I met him, painfully aware of the plight of civilian Afghan contractors who had worked for the U.S. and were left targets of the Taliban, as it reasserted its unforgiving theocratic rule over the country. He was 8,500 miles away from those people when we met, but they preoccupied him, and he asked me if I knew anyone who could help. He needed to find the resources to exfiltrate some of those contractors and their families, who were on the run and would otherwise face a very certain and cruel fate.…