Business for Good Podcast
Long-form conversations with entrepreneurs and investors using business and innovation to address major social and environmental problems.
- Host
- Paul Shapiro
- Published by
- Business for Good Podcast
- Topic
- Ethical Business & Entrepreneurship
- Format
- Interview
- Orientation
- Impact-First
- Themes
- Regenerative
- Made for
- Founder / Entrepreneur, Corporate Leader, Investor
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- Open episode
15 Oct 2026 · 69 min
Peter Singer on Profit for Good: Can Business Make More Money by Giving It Away?
What if giving away your profits actually made your business stronger? In this milestone 200th episode of Business For Good, host Paul Shapiro sits down with Peter Singer, widely regarded as the world's most influential living philosopher, to explore why companies should commit at least 10% of their profits to effective charitable causes and how doing so might attract customers, motivate employees, and ultimately grow the business. Peter co-founded the Profit for Good initiative with Julia van Boven, and in this conversation he lays out the case for a new standard in how businesses treat their
- Open episode
1 Oct 2026 · 49 min
Forty Years of Farm Sanctuary: Gene Baur on What's Worked and What Hasn't
In 1986, Gene Baur co-founded Farm Sanctuary with a simple theory: show people how factory farming works, and they will stop eating animals. Forty years later, per capita meat consumption in America has risen from 196 pounds to 232 pounds per person, and the number of farmed animals entering U.S. slaughterhouses has doubled from roughly 5 billion to 10 billion. In this episode of Business For Good, Paul Shapiro sits down with his longtime colleague and friend to ask the hard question: what actually moves the needle for farmed animals? Gene traces the arc from early investigations and rescues t
- Open episode
15 Sept 2026 · 45 min
Inside the Alt Protein Job Market with Noga Golan
Is alternative protein really a failing industry, or are investors just applying the wrong timeline? Noga Golan, Founder of Food Impact Partners and Food Impact Careers, has an unusually clear view of that question. Her executive recruiting firm and free job board sit at the intersection of candidate demand and company hiring across the global food innovation landscape. In this episode with Paul Shapiro, Noga shares data from nearly 60,000 job views and 35,000 application clicks in the first half of 2026, revealing that companies are still actively hiring even as the broader narrative around a