Backersphere

invest in impact and socially-responsible startups. since linkedin requires 250 words, we thought we'd share our ceo's favorite poem: we are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams, wandering by lone sea-breakers and sitting by desolate streams;— world-losers and world-forsakers, on whom the pale moon gleams: yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems. with wonderful deathless ditties, we build up the world's great cities. and out of a fabulous story, we fashion an empire's glory. one man, with a dream, at pleasure can go forth and conquer a crown. and three, with a new song's measure can trample an empire down. we, in the ages lying, in the buried past of the earth, built nineveh with our sighing and babel itself with our mirth. and o'erthrew them with prophesying to the old of the new world's worth. for each age is a dream that is dying, or one that is coming to birth. -arthur o'shaughnessy