In this event, you’ll learn

What super-credibility is, why you need it and how to get it

Which mindset got Elon Musk and Richard Branson to where they are today

How crowdsourcing has opened the world of business to anyone

Why crowdfunding is another exponential technology

How a community of coders who code for fun solves Best Buy’s problems

About the Author

Peter H. Diamandis is a New York Times bestselling author and the founder of more than twenty high-tech companies. He is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE and executive founder of Singularity University, and the cofounder of Human Longevity, Inc., Celularity and Bold Capital Partners. Diamandis attended MIT, where he received his degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering, and Harvard Medical School, where he received his MD. In 2014 he was named one of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” by Fortune magazine.

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and the founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective. His books include Stealing Fire, Bold, The Rise of Superman, Abundance, A Small Furry Prayer, Tomorrowland, West of Jesus, and Last Tango in Cyberspace. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, has been translated into more than forty languages, and has appeared in over a hundred publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, Forbes, and Time.

Overview

In millennia past, only “kings, pharaohs and emperors” had the resources to attack society’s largest problems. With the Industrial Revolution, power diffused to the new captains of industry who had the financial and intellectual capacity to expand society’s infrastructure and modernize production. Today, anyone with a great idea, passion and commitment “has access to the technology, minds and capital” needed to turn that idea into a reality.

In the past, commerce basically followed “linear growth”: the idea that progress occurs in small, steady steps. However, rapid advances in technology catapulted linear growth into the new “compound doubling” realm of “exponential growth.” The “Six D’s of Exponentials” model explains its power. As it adheres to the cumulative power of exponential development, the last three D’s are “far more potent” than the first three:

“Digitalization” – The chain reaction resulting from advances in information technology starts here and makes collaboration easier.

“Deception” – Growth is so tiny at this stage that it’s hard to see and appreciate.