I learned more about Benefit Corporations, for-profit companies that have a stated mission to make a specific positive impact on society (e.g. Kickstarter recently reclassified itself as a BC), in this episode. @albertwenger has some interesting perspective on this topic (and an awesome blog).

Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger talks with Peter Kafka about being an investor at a time of bubble anxiety and political debate about the trade-off between privacy and security. He argues that tech companies and the government should work together, and also discusses the growing class of mission-driven "benefit corporations."