Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.
If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.
In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.
WhatsApp is both disrupting and demonetizing the entire wireless industry, and now the Facebook acquisition provides the infrastructure needed for WhatsApp to begin offering voice calls. So instead of people paying on average $80 per month, users only have to pay $0.99 per year for the same services. Wireless carriers, beware.
Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant.
The truest drive comes from doing what you love.
Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.
The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.
Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.
One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.
If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wanted to inspire them to go much bigger, bolder and more significant than that.
If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.
My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.
Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.
I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.
