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shoulders with fellow successful entrepreneurs and mentor young up-and- comers—chiefly, Bisnow—who were bent not just on financial success but on making a positive social impact. A free weekend ski trip and an opportunity to change the world? I sure would have said yes—in fact, I probably would have paid to attend. As it turned out, I wasn’t the only one, and boom! , Bisnow had a new venture. Over the course of a few years, the retreats grew into a thriving event business called Summit Series, with both for-profit and nonprofit wings. Summit isn’t just in the business of helping launch entrepreneurs. It’s in the business of creating community, the most valuable form of social capital —the intimate, supportive relationships that spur collaboration while deeply satisfying our human need for connection, belonging, and meaning. Otherwise put, “a lifelong community of colleagues, contacts, friends, and mentors.” What the past decade of social science research tells us is that satisfying these relational needs isn’t just about some soft notion of “the good life”; these are the hard prerequisites for creativity, innovation, progress—and, at th......