A Founder’s Exponential Toolset with Azeem Azhar & James Currier

Key Points

• The exponential age, marked by rapidly advancing technologies, began around the 1960s with the internet and microprocessors, hitting a significant societal impact between 2011 and 2015 when tech companies became the largest in the world.
• Entrepreneurs and startups should focus on technologies with potential for exponential growth, which improve by more than 10% per year for many decades, and consider factors like learning by doing, standardization, and networks that act as accelerators.
• The current political and economic frameworks need to evolve to address the exponential gap between rapidly advancing technology and slower societal and governmental responses, considering new principles like collectivity and commons to benefit society more equitably.