PAUL DUNN
From Serial Entrepreneur to Social Enterprise
By Alison Coleman
it away effectively.” It wasn’t a glib remark, but a reference to the scale of the task of tackling problems like global poverty.
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However, one man who might challenge that statement is Paul Dunn, international business speaker, marketing guru, and now chairman of Buy1Give1, a social enterprise designed with the specific goal of making it easier for businesses, especially start ups and SMEs to give something back.
It is in stark contrast to his own earlier career, which over the course of 20 years, saw him build a succession of $20 million-plus businesses from scratch.
He says: “When you look back at all the excesses that have been going on you have to ask yourself, when did we get into this very incorrect thing planted in our genes that says being able to have everything we want, without having to think about giving anything back, will make us happy for the rest of our life?”
What brought about Dunn’s own transition from corporate advocate to champion of charitable giving is a tale in itself.
A hugely charismatic
s the famous business magnate and philanthropist Warren Buffett once said: “Making money is far easier than giving
Paul Dunn
figure, Paul’s Australian accent belies the fact that he is indeed a native Brit, born and raised in Dover in Kent where his father worked as a coal miner. His career began in the engineering industry, and his first job was in the research labs of Belling & Lee, designing antennae.
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is the chairman of Buy1Give1, a social enterprise designed to make it easier for businesses to give something back.
Image Above: Paul Dunn
In the early 1970s at the age of 21, he was headed Down Under for promotion, but ended up being head hunted by Hewlett Packard as one of the ten-man team behind the company’s Australian start up. “It was a very unique culture; the place to be, and all very exciting for a young engineer, but it was in this environment that I realised
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