Nora Abousteit, founder and CEO of Kollabora and the Kollaborator Network, told HuffPost Live at Davos her company helps people “start making.”
Abousteit said she knitted the sweater she wore on HuffPost Live while she was on her honeymoon, calling the experience “very meditative.”
Abousteit said she grew up crafting, knitting with her mother and welding with her father. She said she saw growth in people wanting to know the origins of their products and wanting the experience of production, which is what inspired her company.
“I realized there was a lot of potential, because a lot of young people were starting to make things,” she said.
Abousteit said making clothes isn’t about saving money.
“It’s not about the saving,” she said. “It’s about doing something that makes you happy.”
Below, more updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:
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Desmond-Hellmann said it’s important to focus on health issues in children that can affect quality of life, like the stunting of growth.
“To have a healthy and productive life, it’s not just survival, it’s thriving,” Desmond-Hellmann said.
Sue Desmond-Hellmann on HuffPost Live at Davos
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Salesforce Foundation President & Co-Founder Suzanne DiBianca talks about the success of her company’s commitment to public service.
Amanshah noted that InvestKL’s goal is to get 100 companies to invest in Greater Kuala Lumpur/Klang Valley by 2020, and they’re “just under halfway.” He said this is a signal the business opportunities in Kuala Lumpur haven’t been negatively impacted by the recent crises like the December AirAsia plane crash and the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
“In terms of impact on tourism, yes, perhaps [the planes had an impact], because people are human and they are all touched by such instances,” he said.
“The investors look at the fundamentals of the opportunities,” he added.
InvestKL CEO Zainal Amanshah spoke to HuffPost Live at Davos about the goals for his company, which aims to get other companies to invest in Greater Kuala Lumpur/Klang Valley.
While Amansha said traditional markets “are still of prime interest” to InvestKL, he said he hopes to branch out.
“We want to do better in our neighboring countries like China, India, perhaps even Indonesia… and we want to continue attracting companies that have high technology,” he said. “We’ve moved up the value chain now.”
“Substance is very important to us as opposed to numbers of companies,” he added.
Guilherme Leal said the B-Team is issuing a challenge to companies to help eliminate greenhouse emissions and fight for climate justice.
“As a B-team group, we are challenging [companies] to reach a net zero greenhouse emission by 2050, because we want to take the leadership,” Leal said. “We know that many companies will not reach this net zero emission [by 2050], but some of them need to reach it before the end of the century. If [they don’t], we’re facing many problems”
Leal said to get to net zero greenhouse emissions, all sectors need to be involved.
