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Its mission is very simple: to help companies and corporations learn how to operate in a more just fashion by using the public's input to define exactly what the criteria are for just corporate behavior.

So we'll release the findings this September for the first time, and then next year, we'll poll again, and we'll take the additive step this time of ranking the 1,000 largest U.S. companies from number one to number 1,000 and everything in between.

And maybe over time, we'll find out that as people come to know which companies are the most just, human and economic resources will be driven towards them, and they'll become the most prosperous and help our country be the most prosperous.

If we put out these brand new genes that we've created, that haven't been challenged by years of evolution, and they started mixing up with the rest of what's going on, couldn't that trigger some kind of cataclysm or problem, especially when you add in the commercial incentive that some companies have to put them out there?

Pamela Ronald: Okay, so on the commercial aspects, one thing that's really important to understand is that, in the developed world, farmers in the United States, almost all farmers, whether they're organic or conventional, they buy seed produced by seed companies.

I think you had two successful companies, and then you started addressing this problem of how could you use satellites to revolutionize radio.

If anything, I'm perhaps a bit of a communicator of activities that are being undertaken by the greatest companies in China, Japan, India, the U.S., Europe.

In a study done by Green Park, who are a British senior exec supplier, they said that over half of the FTSE 100 companies don't have a nonwhite leader at their board level, executive or non-executive.

I'm really excited to share with you some findings that really surprise me about what makes companies succeed the most, what factors actually matter the most for startup success.

And I wanted to try to be systematic about it, avoid some of my instincts and maybe misperceptions I have from so many companies I've seen over the years.

And when I graduated from college, I started software companies.

And 20 years ago, I started Idealab, and in the last 20 years, we started more than 100 companies, many successes, and many big failures.

Sometimes companies received intense amounts of funding.

So I tried to look very carefully at these five factors across many companies.

And I looked across all 100 Idealab companies, and 100 non-Idealab companies to try and come up with something scientific about it.

So I tried to rank across all of those attributes how I felt those companies scored on each of those dimensions.

And then for non-Idealab companies, I looked at wild successes, like Airbnb and Instagram and Uber and Youtube and LinkedIn.

The bottom companies had intense funding, they even had business models in some cases, but they didn't succeed.

I tried to look at what factors actually accounted the most for success and failure across all of these companies, and the results really surprised me.

GoTo.com, which we announced actually at TED in 1998, was when companies were looking for cost-effective ways to get traffic.

What would happen if each one of us decided that we are no longer going to support companies if they don't eliminate exploitation from their labor and supply chains?

Now, as I've gone around the world talking about this and telling this story in all sorts of organizations and companies, people have seen the relevance almost instantly, and they come up and they say things to me like, "That superflock, that's my company."

Now, that was 20 years ago, and now I visit companies that have banned coffee cups at desks because they want people to hang out around the coffee machines and talk to each other.

Companies don't have ideas; only people do.

Social capital is what gives companies momentum, and social capital is what makes companies robust.

And when I went to visit companies that are renowned for their ingenuity and creativity, I couldn't even see any superstars, because everybody there really mattered.

And it worked: Ahead of all the other companies tackling this hard problem, this group cracked it first.

Bacteria develop resistance so quickly that pharmaceutical companies have decided making antibiotics is not in their best interest, so there are infections moving across the world for which, out of the more than 100 antibiotics available on the market, two drugs might work with side effects, or one drug, or none.

There are companies working on novel antibiotics, things the superbugs have never seen before.

We need those new drugs badly, and we need incentives: discovery grants, extended patents, prizes, to lure other companies into making antibiotics again.

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