The Faith-Driven Business Brief - Feb 27, 2025
Joseph Sam
Inc. 3:16 - Advancing BAM || Venture Capital - Startup Consulting & Deal Sourcing || Accelerating Digital Transformation - Web, Mobile, E-Commerce, and Cloud.
Your quick snapshot of business insights for the week—accelerating faith-driven business, curated through the lens of a redemptive vantage point!
Highlights of the week:
From Convene 2025 to the B2B Summit - innovation, impact and 'community first' are at the forefront of industry leadership. Faith-Driven businesses continue to reinforce that purpose and profit can thrive together. Podcasts gain momentum on YouTube and VC firms turn to value creators.
Events
Convene 2025 - Dallas
CEOs and key leaders will discover how to embrace innovation, transform their businesses, and make a lasting impact. Connect with faith-driven leaders at Convene.?
Explore a human-first approach to AI and technology that can transform your leadership. Learn from experts, share challenges, and take away practical steps to lead more effectively.
Register now ?? https://hubs.ly/Q037TSHG0
B2B Summit - North America
Launch Your Growth Transformation Today!
Whether you’re navigating the future of buyer behavior, implementing AI strategies, or aligning your go-to-market teams, B2B Summit provides the expertise, tools, and confidence you need to drive success in 2025 and beyond.
Register Now! Forrester
Community
Faith, Business & Mission
Too often, we assume there’s an inherent tension between faith and business, as if profit and Kingdom impact are separate entities. The Marketplace Leaders Dinner at Sanctus Church past Tuesday night was a powerful reminder, that intentionally integrated faith and business is a mission in response to our calling as light and salt of the world.
Philip Yan, Director of the Centre for Redemptive Entrepreneurship (CRE), had a conversation with Jazmine Funes and Steven Funes, owners of Chick-fil-A Scarborough Town Centre, who shared their story of integrating faith and business.
For those of us building, leading, and operating a business, we’re not just running the business—we have a part in shaping culture, restoring integrity in industries, and blessing people and community in tangible ways. Faith fuels one’s business; the two are not competing against each other.?
Market Trends
More than 1 billion people are now watching podcasts on YouTube every month
The growth of podcast consumption on YouTube comes after Google Podcasts was phased out in mid-2024. In the U.S., about 31% of weekly podcast listeners choose YouTube as their preferred service, over Spotify (27%) and Apple Podcasts (15%), per Edison Podcast Metrics research released last October.
In 2024, users watched more than 24 billion minutes of podcasts monthly on living-room devices, the company said.
Source: Bloomberg
Leadership : Peak Human Performance
Peter H. Diamandis, Founder & Executive Chairman, XPRIZE
Peter talks to Steven Kotler—bestselling author and expert on peak human performance—about how AI technology and flow states can unlock new levels of creativity. Take a dive deep into how humans and AI systems differ in pattern recognition, lateral thinking, and creative innovation.
Watch the Podcast on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/et6_4dJ7
Stanford Seed For Startups
Calling entrepreneurs in Africa, Indonesia, and South Asia: applications to the 2026 Seed Transformation Program are now open!?
Stanford Seed is looking for high-potential CEOs/founders of established companies, with annual revenues between USD $300k and $15M, who are motivated to grow their businesses.
Join for an online session with Stanford Seed Executive Director Darius Teter to learn how you can grow your business with the Seed Transformation Program.
Register here:
For more information on our program and application:
Spotlight - Community First
VC Firm Slow Ventures Is Investing $60 Million in Content Creators.?
With over $60 million from institutional investors like the University of Michigan and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Slow hopes to profit on what Megan Lightcap, partner at Slow Creator, calls an “inversion of business-building.”
“It’s community first, vertical first, and then you launch products and services on top of that,” Lightcap says, “versus what we’ve historically seen—two kids with an idea, coming up with a product or company and then going to find customers for it down the road.”
Source: Inc.com
Wealth & True Riches
One might think that the likes of Bill Ackman and Tim Cook don’t need help managing their wealth. But the billionaires are raving about one personal finance book.Hedge fund mogul Ackman just?took to X?to share?one of just two books?he recommends people read:?"The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life"?by entrepreneur Sahil Bloom .
Read more: https://lnkd.in/ei3bAAQR
Source: Fortune
And you may also want to check: "TRUE RICHES : What Jesus Really Said about Money and Your Heart" by John Cortines & Gregory Baumer for the "Spiritual Wealth".
About Inc. 3:16
The Faith-Driven Business Brief
Covering key events, latest business trends, technology developments, market dynamics, and funding - impacting the startups and the small businesses.
The vision of 'Inc. 3:16' is to inspire and advance a 'world that God so loved' through impactful business.
A purpose-driven business community fueled by a passion for generosity, redemptive entrepreneurship, and the gospel.
Curated by Joseph Sam