One day, while working on a business start-up called Radical Social Entrepreneurs in New York, he received an e-mail from a man named Giancarlo Ibárgüen—the president of Guatemala’s prestigious Universidad Francisco Marroquín.11 Giancarlo invited Zach to visit and explore the possibility of collaborating on a number of projects. At age twenty-five, Zach took charge of the Michael Polanyi College within the university and created a radical, profitable experimental program in liberal arts studies. In this program, students design their own degrees.
