Banks Benitez

Redefining Innovation

Some of the best innovations are often just slight tweaks on existing models. Innovation is more about borrowing than it is about inventing, more about adapting existing approaches to new markets and customers.

Local Coffee Shop

There’s this coffee shop [http://riversandroadscoffee.com/#Why] one block from my house that’s owned by this couple, Desiree and Mike. They pull one of the best espresso shots outside of Australia, where my love of coffee bloomed into existence when I lived there in 2011. Anyway, as

Uncharted Insider - January 2019

Happy new year! Welcome to the January edition of the Uncharted Insider. Uncharted Update: * New partnership on regenerative agriculture: We’re launching an initiative focused on regenerative agriculture that leverages our skill sets in collective impact and entrepreneurial acceleration. * We selected eight ventures for our Chipotle Accelerator: We selected and

Beginner's Terrain

Beginners are explorers of new, unclaimed terrain; experts are protectors of existing, claimed terrain.

Uncharted Insider - December 2018

leadership, learning, social impact

Uncharted Insider - November 2018

Hi everyone, Welcome to the November edition of the Uncharted Insider. Uncharted Update: * Selecting Food Entrepreneurs: We’ve partnered with Chipotle’s Cultivate Foundation on a major initiative [https://uncharted.org/program/chipotle-aluminaries-project/] to find and accelerate ventures working on the “future of food with integrity.” Our team has spent