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Diamandis: Heavy legacy organizations will likely not survive the 2020s
“The difficulty is we're going to see such massive disruption in this decade. Right, so if you're a large organization with the layers of management and a massive lead keel of assets and resources that you can't offload during ups and downs you're likely not to…”
Diamandis: Large corporations will survive by acquiring innovation, not building internally
“But it's going to be that the larger corporations are going to be surviving by buying innovation versus creating it inside in-house.”
Diamandis: XPRIZE competition aims to reverse human biological age by 20 years
“My biggest area right now is reinventing, disrupting healthcare a health span XPRIZE reverse your biological age or your functional age by 20 years, right?”
Diamandis: Legacy companies must build exponential units outside their core
“The challenge is if you're a large established company, trying to retrofit your organization to become an exponential organization is almost impossible. And there's lots of reasons for it, right? You're basically fighting everything you've been doing for the l…”
Diamandis: Corporate missions focused solely on shareholder return fail talent today
“And unfortunately we see historically a lot of the traditional blue chip companies are like, you know, to provide outsized shareholder returns. I'm sorry, that's just not going to cut it today. A lot of the smartest you know, gen, whatever you want are looking…”
Diamandis: Proliferation of AI and robotics will lead to Universal Basic Income
“And so we probably will have some version of universal basic income. Coming down as more robots and AIs come online”
Diamandis: Every company must hire a Chief AI Officer
“Every company needs to have what I call a chief AI officer. It is someone who understands what's going on in the AI universe and is sitting next to the CEO as a strategic advisor to say, We need to be injecting it here, here, and here, and partner with this or…”
Diamandis: Emad Mostaque is running a countrywide AI education experiment in Malawi
“And by the way, you might as working on that right now, right? He's looking to provide every child in the nation of Malawi, a countrywide experiment.”
Diamandis: Digitization enables small teams to build billion-dollar startups in record time
“I mean, the ability to go from an idea to a billion dollar startup in record time with a really small number of individuals, there's something different and it really is the digitization of Every aspect.”
Diamandis: Generative AI is spawning tens of thousands of single-person startups
“Generative AI right now, which is a tool that's spawning not thousands, maybe tens of thousands of new startups you know, individual single person startups out of no place”
Diamandis: Rigid Salaried Workforces Risk Bankruptcy From External Shocks
“If you have a huge workforce that is on your salary base and you don't have any agility to flex up and flex down, You can be bankrupted by an externality like a pandemic or like whatever it might be.”