“We don't regulate the idealists well, because to some degree we are sucked in by their story. ": As a conference-circuit regular and former McKinsey consultant, writer Anand Giridharadas has seen firsthand business leaders' efforts to solve social problems. Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky sat down with Giridharadas, who reveals why he’s come to see those efforts as more self-serving than world-changing. Pious tech leaders particularly bother Giridharadas—precisely because they wield power under the flag of idealism. Each has a self-serving narrative, he argues: "Uber just wants to create micro-entrepreneurship in America. Google just wants to organize all the world's information.