The Faith-Driven Business Brief by Inc.3:16 - Feb 5, 2025

Your quick shot of business insights for the week — refreshing the ideas that shape faith-driven business!

From redemptive entrepreneurship to AI-driven transformation, the world is at an inflection point. As reskilling becomes urgent and AI reshapes industries, will we rise to empower the next generation? The future is unfolding—how will you shape it?

- Joseph Sam, Chief Curator

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• The Tebow Group and Tim Tebow are proud to be invested in Immersed and are excited for the announcement that they’ve opened up an opportunity to invest in the business. We invested our own capital in a prior investment round mostly due to our belief in Renji Bijoy and the outstanding team at Immersed.
• Could churches become a place of redemptive imagination and launching pad for entrepreneurs? Love Dave Blanchard and the incredible work being done by the Praxis Team. Great to reflect on the Faith Driven Entrepreneur podcast and see just how this conversation of redemptive entrepreneurship has become more normative. Justin Forman

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A Heart to Follow: Dean’s Journey of Discerning God’s Will.

Listen to Dean Harrington, who has become a champion for others to go from "hoping" to abiding and walking by confident faith in the whirlwind of life and business. Mike Sharrow C12 Business Forums

Redefining the Future

1.. Five Ways to Make the Most of Your Re-skilling Investments.

The shelf life of a skill is now shorter than ever. Research from the BCG Henderson Institute suggests that by 2030, up to 29% of workers globally—more than 1 billion people—will find that the demand for their job is disappearing. (BCG)

2.. Children’s reading levels are plummeting.

Some 33% of eighth graders in the U.S. have ‘below basic’ reading levels. (Fast Company)

Tech Perspectives

3.. Agentic AI and How Will It Change Work!

The next era of human-machine collaboration will present new opportunities and challenges. (HBR)

4. Ten Breakthrough Technologies 2025.

What will really matter in the long run? (MIT)

Startups and Small Business Zone

5.. The Sales Ops Playbook.

Achieve Sales Excellence Through Accurate TAM, SAM, and SOM Projections.(IDC)

6.. This startup is empowering women by connecting home chefs with hungry office workers

Based in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan, Coozin was launched in 2020. About 70 women are active on the platform, and approximately 100 companies are enrolled in the system, placing up to 1,500 orders each day. This year, Coozin hopes to scale up to 7,500 orders a day and employ at least 200 women. (CNN)

Inspiration

7.. How will your decisions today shape the future for generations to come?

Demographic and technology shifts are changing how we work, spend and communicate. Rethinking generational dynamics can unleash growth. (EY)

8. AI powers VC investment in the US in Q4’24

The sector accounted for more than half of the country’s top ten deals, including the first $10 billion venture round ever seen in the US. (KPMG)

Source:

1. https://www.bcg.com
2. https://www.fastcompany.com
3. https://hbr.org
4. https://www.technologyreview.com
5. https://www.idc.com
6. https://edition.cnn.com
7. https://www.ey.com
8. https://kpmg.com