The Rise of the Exponential Organization

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Science, Innovation, Business, Entrepreneurship, Culture, Disruption, Software Eating The World, Technology

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🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Many companies today are grappling with a few things: an economic downturn, potential layoffs and restructuring, and trying to keep up with the latest tech trends… all while still maintaining a growth trajectory. In this episode, you’ll learn which companies are uniquely designed to weather this storm and what attributes these exponential organizations have. We’re joined by the co-authors of Exponential Organzations, Peter Diamandids and Salim Ismail, both also well-known for their involvement in XPrize and Singularity University, among many other companies.

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0:00.0	Instagram gets acquired for a billion dollars by Facebook with 13 employees and then now it's worth a hundred billion dollars on
0:07.0	medicine balance sheet.
0:08.0	When a big company tries to do anything disruptive, they get an immune system response from the rest of the company and they get attacked.
0:14.0	The challenge is that the day before something is really a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea.
0:19.0	If it wasn't a crazy idea, it wouldn't be a breakthrough.
0:22.0	We have now a dozen technologies. wasn't a crazy idea it wouldn't be a breakthrough.
0:22.8	We have now a dozen technologies that are accelerating
0:26.2	all of them individually.
0:27.9	And where they intersect, that adds a whole other multiplier
0:30.4	to the equation.
0:31.4	And you're not working to dematerialize, demonize, and democratize, or products and services.
0:36.5	Someone else will and they'll plead better business.
0:38.6	If you had a billion dollars for a problem which you go solve with that billion dollars. The asteroid that's striking the business world.
0:45.2	And we look around the table and we're like, well,
0:46.9	there's a five of us, and you can see his mind break.
0:49.9	We all have 24 hours in a day, seven days in a week, no matter who you are on the planet, and it's
0:54.0	how you use that to make a dent in the universe.
0:59.8	Welcome back to the A16C podcast.
1:02.6	Look, many companies today are grappling with just a few things.
1:07.2	One, an economic downturn, two, potential layoffs and restructuring,
1:12.3	three, trying to keep up with all the latest tech trends,
1:15.5	and doing all of this while still maintaining a growth trajectory.
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