Episode 107: First Principles Thinking

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Episode 107: First Principles Thinking

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Peter and Dan discuss first principles thinking, demonstrating why the world’s best entrepreneurs use this methodology to set massive goals. Elon Musk is perhaps the foremost example of entrepreneurial success as a direct result of his mindset, problem-solving strategies, and intelligence. In this episode: Peter shares his takeaways from his conversation with Elon Musk, which […]

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Aug 25, 2021

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Peter Diamandis and Dan Sullivan discuss how exponential technologies are creating massive opportunities for entrepreneurs all over the world and the impact of hyperconnectivity on global innovation.

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Episode 12: Ripe For Disruption… Agriculture and Transportation: In this episode, Peter and Dan discuss how sensors and robotics will disrupt a multitude of billion-dollar industries. by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 4: Living a Longer, Healthier Life: In this episode, Peter and Dan discuss how you can live a longer, healthier life. by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 13: Transforming Healthcare and Education: In this episode, Peter and Dan discuss two of the slowest-moving industries in the past 25 years — healthcare and education — and why they’re excited about the innovation and reinvention happening. by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 7: The Impact Pledge: Turning Success Into Significance: In this episode, Peter and Dan discuss how to turn success into significance by creating an impact pledge. by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 28: Hiring “A” Players: If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company, you’ve got to get one thing right: hiring. Peter and Dan discuss one of the most important aspects of being an entrepreneur — attracting great people and recruiting them into the organization. by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 2: Hyperconnectivity Welcomes the Rest of the World: In this episode, Peter and Dan discuss the impact of hyperconnectivity on global innovation and the newest technological developments that are leading to greater wealth and abundance. by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 9: How the Sharing Economy Can Disrupt Your Business: In this episode, Peter and Dan discuss how to keep up with the sharing economy and how it will affect your business. by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 43: Accelerating the Acceleration of Technology: Peter and Dan discuss a common conversation theme in Silicon Valley — namely, that most people have no idea how quickly things are changing — and how technology has caused the world to move at an accelerated pace. by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 19: AI: A Tool, Not a Threat: Dan and Peter discuss the hot topic of Artificial Intelligence (cognitive computing) and their belief that this technology will soon tackle society’s most daunting challenges bringing exabytes of data into perspective. by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 11: Problems Are Goldmines: In this episode, Peter and Dan discuss mindset and how problems can be the biggest business opportunities. by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 17: The Power of Experimentation: In this episode, Dan and Peter discuss starting a new product in the year 2016 and the idea of continuous testing. by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 29: What’s Most Exciting for 2017: With exponential technologies accelerating at warp speed, Peter and Dan discuss how convergences of these technologies will impact life in 2017. by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 51: Advertising to AI’s: Peter and Dan discuss the future of advertising products and services, including new possibilities when personal AI’s are in the world. Peter describes a near future in which artificial intelligence is so good at predicting desires that we will ultimat... by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 38: The Pace of Innovation: Peter and Dan explore the history of innovation over centuries and the “adjacent possible,” a concept developed by Steven Johnson in his book “How We Got to Now.” by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 32: Humanity’s Growth Tension Points: This episode, Peter and Dan discuss how technology is changing the political process around the world, and what this means for entrepreneurs. by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 18: Nearing a Trillion-Sensor Economy: An expert might be reasonably good at predicting the growth of a single exponential technology (e.g. the Internet of Things), but try to predict the future when the following eight technologies are all doubling, by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 40: Digitizing the World: In Episode 27: Evidence of Abundance, Peter and Dan discussed the 6 D’s framework and how this model is a road map to contextualize exponential technologies. In this episode, they dig deeper into the first step, Digitization, by Exponential Wisdom
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Episode 39: Parenting in an Exponential Age: Peter and Dan discuss setting boundaries for kids and their gadgets. They explore the potential benefits and pitfalls of kids using technology and growing up in a world where every toy contains exponential technology. by Exponential Wisdom
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