Insights September 18th, 2018

We live in interesting times and software truly is (as Marc Andreessen says) ‘eating the world’. In ‘How to Build a Trillion Dollar Company with Jeff Bezos’ we see him speak with the The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. president David M. Rubenstein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avpsnvfjBPs

5 amazing Amazon stats

  1. There are 300 million amazon.com users and 30 million mobile users per month.
  2. they use 45,000+ robots in their warehouses and employ 566,000 people globally. That’s a jump of 60% from 2017.
  3. They paid 13.7 billion for Whole Foods and gained over 14 billion in market cap that day. It’s a neutral (and very impactful) purchase. Wait until Amazon Go gets deployed at scale.
  4. 1 million small and medium sized U.S. businesses sell on amazon.com.
  5. Amazon holds a patent on 1-Click buying, and licenses it to Apple.

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Nikolas Badminton

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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