About Us

That sentence has been the throughline of everything I've built and everything I’ve written for as long as I can remember. It stands in direct opposition to the idea that a business exists primarily for the profit of its stockholders. It's a moral argument, and I mean it as one.

The free market is the most powerful engine for human prosperity ever created. But the free market is only as good as the purposes it serves. When the purpose is extraction, it extracts. When the purpose is people, it builds them up.

I started writing about this in 2015, because my wife told me to stop just telling her about these ideas and to start telling everyone else. The core conviction hasn't changed: business, at its best, transcends capitalism. That transcendence happens when we stop asking "how much can I take?" and start asking "how much more can I do?"

Moses Maimonides taught that the highest form of charity is knowing the person, entering into partnership with them, and giving what is needed so that their hand will be fortified and they will not have to ask others for help. That is what this Foundation exists to do.

We exist to close the distance between people who have capacity and people who need it. Not through anonymous checks. Through proximity—mentoring, partnership, trust, and the practical resources that help someone gain the footing to stand on their own. What Maimonides and every other great thinker I’ve ever heard described. What my scriptures teach. What I've watched work in the lives of people around me.

The Better Capitalist Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Every dollar goes toward the work.

-Ben