Why the best minds are not solving world’s biggest problems? | Prasoon Kumar | TEDxPune

Steve Jobs, one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our times, someone who could not only envision the future but realize it. What problem did he solve? The world’s richest foundation, founded by someone whose software has dominated personal computer industry for three decades, what problem has he tackled at the same scale. World’s best schools, producing some of the smartest people on the planet, get snapped by e-commerce and technology giants of today. What problem do they end up solving? Prasoon, co-founder and CEO of a one of a kind non profit, billionBricks argues that the biggest problems in the world continue to exist because we are not putting our best minds behind them. Even when we take a stab at solving them, we get satisfied and celebrate small successes in a big way. He validates this with his own work when their social media campaign went viral after his organisation helped just 15 homeless families. Even Ashton Kutcher commented on his facebook, calling their work, ’innovation at its finest’. Was it the ’finest innovation’ or was it that there was no other innovation to compete with? To know more about Prasoon and his work at billionBricks, visit or . Or follow him on twitter at @PrasoonbB Prasoon Kumar, Co-Founder and CEO of billionBricks (bB), is an urban planner and architect with over 10 years of experience in design firms across India, USA, Hong Kong and Singapore. In 2013, he founded bB, a one-of-a-kind non-profit innovation studio that uses design as its primary tool to solve one of the most pressing global problems - homelessness. He works at providing shelter and infrastructure solutions for the homeless and vulnerable which are scalable, sustainable, and able to create opportunities for communities to emerge out of poverty. In 2016, Prasoon led bB to launch its first product, WeatherHYDE which was awarded the A’Design in Social Design. Since 2013, bB has rehabilitated more than 1,800 homeless and vulnerable people in Asia. Chosen as one of Urban Land Institute’s 40 under 40 in 2016, he is a recipient of the Focussed Issue Planning Award from the California State APA in 2007, and was shortlisted in the top 5 of the World Architecture News Award. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at