The Call of The Entrepreneur

Business owners have it all: wealth, power, prestige, a life of ease.

Now they even have their own feature film: The Call of The Enterpreneur.

According to the Acton Institute (producers of the film) PowerBlog:

The Call of the Entrepreneur tells the stories of three entrepreneurs: one a farmer in rural Evart, Michigan, another a mercantile banker in New York, and finally an entrepreneur in Hong Kong, China. The film examines the drive behind what these people do: Why are they driven to create wealth? Why do they produce? Who does it benefit?

The film premieres May 17 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and will probably be available on DVD shortly after that.

I’ll bring you a review of the film once I’ve seen the whole thing but a quick “Ah Ha!” moment I got from the trailer (which you can watch below) is that primitive farmers may have been the first entrepreneurs, risking resources today in the hope that their crop will pay dividends a few months in the future. And their willingness to risk it all to bring a steady supply of food to all of their customers was the foundation upon which all civilization was built.

The film argues that this same cycle of entrepreneurial risk driving societal advancement is at work today. Watch the trailer and tell me what you think.