2021: If You Have a Story to Tell, Now is the Time

2020 was a year of change.

Companies that were struggling closed their doors. Businesses that were just starting to find their footing, if they were well positioned, accelerated. A company like Zoom is a remarkable example of how quickly change can grab hold in society. Before COVID-19, at the end of 2019, Zoom had around 10 million daily active meeting participants. Now? They have over 300 million.

Of course, not every business has a story quite like Zoom’s. According to Fortune, more than 100,000 businesses that had originally shut down temporarily have since gone completely out of business. And according to the Wall Street Journal, somewhere between 20 million and 40 million people have lost their jobs since the beginning of the year, depending on how you want to interpret the data. And while Pfizer has the official green light for their coronavirus vaccine from the FDA, it is still going to take a while for our country, along with the rest of the world, to recover.

But especially here in America, that doesn’t mean innovation is slowing down.

If anything, 2020 has ignited a wave of enthusiasm amidst business owners, entrepreneurs, creative employees, and investors. If there was ever a time to solve meaningful problems in society, now is it.