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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/) ## Belinda Luscombe Editor at Large  Daniel Lubetzky on Shark Tank. Daniel Lubetzky on Shark Tank.Christopher Willard—Disney/Getty Images One thing you know about an entrepreneur whose first brand was called Moshe Pupik and Ali Mishmuken’s World Famous Gourmet Foods is that he’s not easily deterred by stiff challenges. And when his next business has just one name—Kind—you can also tell that he’s a leader who learns from his errors. Daniel Lubetzky, who took the Kind snack bars from a product discarded by an Australian manufacturer to a [global powerhouse](https://www.forbes.com/profile/daniel-lubetzky/), sold his remaining interest in the company at the end of 2024\. He’s now taking on even stiffer odds: he wants to restore power to those who want to build unity, not sow division. Lubetzky, who was born in Mexico (his Latvia-born father was a survivor of the Dachau concentration camp and his mother was from Tampico, Tamaulipas) and moved with his family to San Antonio when he was a teenager, started his first company right out of law school because he believed that trade was the best route to peace. Moshe & Ali’s, as it was known for short, was a joint venture between Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians, Egyptians, and Turks to produce and distribute Spraté, a line of spreadable pastes in flavors such as sun-dried tomatoes, olive, eggplant, and pesto. “Trade among peoples breaks stereotypes,” says Lubetzky, 56, who is the founder of the investment firm [Camino Partners](https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-of-a-kind-founder-of-snack-company-seeks-to-back-next-big-consumer-health-startup-2b510dda?gaa%5Fat=eafs&gaa%5Fn=ASWzDAiOCMjqCARyZg9iGwXip1gp8O2KETmN1uUjbjd9zEG8X559PTTN84ww2Eg1Pd0%3D&gaa%5Fts=68c2e1aa&gaa%5Fsig=JDL0PTjXNtCMFCNygBSn5n803Y2V7FE3aEJtJjwigZ%5FIy9qV6TywvdulehoETzZkYe%5FJxNG9qY9Gfdb89u%5Fn9w%3D%3D) but is perhaps best known for being one of the Sharks on ABC’s _Shark Tank_. “It cements relations between people. It gives people a vested interest in preserving those relationships. It humanizes one another.” The business was not successful, nor, obviously, was the peacemaking initiative behind it. When Lubetzky talked to his Palestinian and Israeli friends about why war broke out in 2000, he found that he was talking to sets of people operating with completely different information sources, and those with moderating voices were being drowned out by those at the extremes. “Even if moderates make up 90 to 99% of society and extremists are only one to 10%, extremists wake up in the morning and think, ‘How can I advance my cause?’” he says. “And moderates wake up in the morning and think, ‘What can I have for breakfast?’” Lubetzky has now turned more of his attention and resources—he’s worth a reported $2.3 billion—to an initiative called [Builders](https://buildersmovement.org/thefeed/). “A builder is a moderate that takes action,” he says. “We’re trying to create a movement of builders that will demonstrate that we can solve problems together rather than tear each other apart.” In order to empower people to become builders, the organization is focusing on civic society, education, and media. “We want to create a movement of people with their identities, first and foremost, as builders, not as Democrats or Republicans.” In one pilot project in Tennessee, Builders convened people from all sides of the gun debate in a room over three days to discuss what could be done to reduce gun violence. They came up with eight proposals, which were presented to the public, and 30,000 people chose five they agreed on, which were presented to the state legislature, and one was voted into law. It was a pretty vanilla statute about K-12 gun education, but, as Lubetzky learned from Moshe’s & Ali’s, you have to start somewhere. The group also made a [movie](https://buildersmovement.org/tennessee11/) about it. Lubetzky rejects the notion that peacemaking is too difficult for ordinary people to do. By making their voices heard, he believes, people can get leaders to do the right thing, even in a situation as complex as Gaza. “We need to create a condition so that this never happens again, so that you never allow extremists on either side to take either people in an extremist, absolutist path that denies the humanity of the other side,” he says. “Or else we’re going to condemn all peoples to an eternal battleground.” **Correction, Sept. 16** The original version of this story misstated Lubetzky's age. 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