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Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Lessons.- How to Build Two Billion Dollar Unicorns | Terry Jones - Founder of Travelocity & Kayak

Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Success Story Media

Business, How To, Careers, Self-improvement, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this "Lessons" episode, Terry Jones, founder of Travelocity and Kayak, dives deep into the future of innovation and how emerging technologies are reshaping business as we know it. He explains how the fusion of AI, IoT, and 3D printing is driving smarter, faster, and more adaptive organizations. Learn how automation and data are redefining the modern workplace, why flexibility will shape the future of work, and how new business models like “as-a-service” and direct-to-consumer are transforming traditional industries. Jones also highlights the next wave of disruptors—from drone deliveries to 3D-printed manufacturing—and reveals what legacy companies must do to survive in a rapidly changing digital economy.

 

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0:00.0

In this lesson's episode, explore how new technologies are transforming industries and the future of work.

0:05.1

Discover how the fusion of AI, IOT, and 3D printing is reshaping production and innovation,

0:11.4

understand why connected systems create smarter and faster organizations,

0:14.7

and uncover how automation is redefining how people work and businesses evolve.

0:32.8

So when you work with companies, what is the thing that you see having the biggest effect?

0:36.9

Like, you know, you look at IoT, you look at AI, you look at companies that are trying to figure it a way to push blockchain into trustless transact.

0:40.9

Like, what's the thing that's changing companies the most that you can see the impact in the next six months?

0:46.7

Well, I think it's the combination of AI with these technologies.

0:50.7

So it's AI and IoT.

0:53.7

So you move to, you know, manufacturing 4.0, where you can do

0:59.9

predictive maintenance. And, you know, people who are doing AI and 3D printing, Boeing just got

1:07.9

approved for the first 3D printed, or GE got approved, excuse me, for the first 3D printed engine part.

1:15.8

Think about how that part was made before.

1:18.2

Five some of sub-assemblers made little pieces.

1:21.4

They sent them to an assembler, put it together, put it in a warehouse, put it on a ship, put it on a truck, and got it to GE.

1:27.4

Now, GE gets a part

1:29.3

that's cheaper, lighter, faster, stronger, and no inventory. And people say, well, 3D printing

1:34.5

is slow. It only has to be faster than the ship from Asia, right? And it is. Yeah. So, you know,

1:42.3

I think it's the combination of people taking big data and AI and putting it behind,

1:47.7

whether it's robotics or blockchain or drones, to really change products.

1:53.8

And the other, I think, big change you're seeing is cloud-connected products.

1:58.3

So companies are seeing that cloud-connect them products allow them to act like a

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