Peter Samuelson: Philanthropy, Film & Kindness Goes Viral | Future Roots

Peter Samuelson (Co-founder, Ripples of Kindness; President, First Star) joins Emiliano Gutiérrez on Future Roots: conversations with the people building what's next.

Film producer Peter Samuelson, founder behind Starlight, First Star and EDAR, on making kindness spread like a network and why giving at checkout sells more than a discount.

He also covers what producing 27 films taught him about raising money, how Starlight started with one sick boy's trip to Disneyland, and why you shouldn't wait to be successful to give.

Chapters

0:00 Kindness, ROI and servant leadership

3:33 Coming to America with nothing

6:34 Ripples of Kindness: kindness as a network

13:02 Why giving sells more than discounts

16:25 From junior crew to film producer

20:07 The film producer's toolkit

24:09 How Starlight began

30:34 First Star: foster kids to college

32:55 EDAR: a bed for the unhoused

37:22 Hunger, food waste and giving early

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