I became very much, if I have to describe myself, I’m sort of a Libertarian Capitalist, and I was looking for, what’s the economic engine that’s going to drive us into space.
One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.
Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they’re making their money, they’re focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.
You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.
The first trillionaire can be made in space.
The day before something is truly a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.” Trying out crazy ideas means bucking expert opinion and taking big risks. It means not being afraid to fail. Because you will fail. The road to bold is paved with failure, and this means having a strategy in place to handle risk and learn from mistakes is critical.
If we were to forgo our television addiction for just one year, the world would have over a trillion hours of cognitive surplus to commit to share projects.
There’s an old saying in business: You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
The true measure of something’s worth is the hours it takes to acquire it.
Right now, and for the first time ever, a passionate and committed individual has access to the technology, minds, and capital required to take on any challenge.
When seen through the lens of technology, few resources are truly scarce; they’re mainly inaccessible.
The road to bold is paved with failure, and this means having a strategy in place to handle risk and learn from mistakes is critical.
In today’s hyperlinked world, solving problems anywhere, solves problems everywhere.
The free flow of information has become so important to all of us that in 2011 the United Nations declared “access to the Internet” a fundamental human right.
Today most poverty-stricken Americans have a television, telephone, electricity, running water, and indoor plumbing. Most Africans do not. If you transferred the goods and services enjoyed by those who live in California’s version of poverty to the average Somalian living on less than a $1.25 a day, that Somalian is suddenly fabulously rich.
In hundreds of studies, researchers have consistently found that we overestimate our own attractiveness, intelligence, work ethic, chances for success.
Quite simply, good news doesn’t catch our attention. Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
Biotechnology isn’t just accelerating at the speed of Moore’s law, it’s accelerating at five times the speed of Moore’s law – doubling in power and halving in price every four months!
All told, according to the United Nations, poverty was reduced more in the past fifty years than in the previous five hundred.
There are 2.7 billion people in the developing world without access to financial services.