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From Wall Street to World Impact: Building the Exascale Disruptor | Podcast with Ryan Lavelle #52

🎙️ Podcast Episode Description — Ryan Lavelle (mpowa.io) In this podcast call, we speak with Ryan Lavelle, a technologist with a background in electronic engineering and corporate consulting for major banks. Ryan shares his personal and professional journey, detailing how witnessing the events of 9/11 and seeing the flaws in the financial system led to a "mid-life crisis" and a pivot toward creating a purpose-driven company. Ryan's venture, mpowa.io, is an exponential disruptor platform designed to address global inequality and environmental issues by facilitating clean tech solutions and sustainable development. The company has a unique bootstrapped model, generating revenue from community-level projects to self-fund their impact programs while the main platform, Impactivator, is in incubation. The ultimate vision for mpowa.io is to be a disruptor in multiple industry verticals, cleaning up "dirty" sectors like sustainable fashion and mining, and horizontally supporting community building with microgrids and off-grid energy in remote areas. Ryan emphasizes that their approach is not about solving symptoms, but about tackling root causes by empowering social entrepreneurs to create bankable and sustainable projects, moving communities away from reliance on charity. 💡 Key Topics: The Purpose Pivot: Ryan's shift from high-paid corporate consulting to founding a company focused on impact, driven by a desire to fix global inequality and social injustice. Impactivator Platform: Building a scalable platform to manage exponential impact and bring together investors, clean tech providers, and NGOs. Bootstrapped Model: Generating revenue from community projects to self-fund operations while preparing for a major launch on AWS. Sustainable Development: Focusing on projects that solve root causes, such as building farms alongside orphanages to create revenue and teach agriculture. Ultimate Vision: Disrupting multiple industry verticals (fashion, mining) and developing community infrastructure with clean tech solutions.