Bold
Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools. It focuses on the radical technologies that are disrupting today’s Fortune 500 companies and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to prosper far faster than ever before. This book provides exceptional insight into the power of 3D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic biology. Bold closes with a look at the best practices that allow anyone to leverage today’s hyper-connected crowd like never before.
“Bold is a visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world—and offers invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it.”
"BOLD is an essential navigation tool for any proactive CEO who wants to remain relevant. In the next decade it is reasonable to assume that some of the corporations at the top of the Fortune 500 will be displaced by the 'exponential entrepreneur'. History tells us that if we don't proactively change and adapt, change will be imposed on us. BOLD, spells out the implications and opportunities driven by exponential changes transforming our world."
— Jim Moffatt, CEO of U.S. Deloitte Consulting, LLP
“Abundance showed us where our world can be in 20 years. BOLD is a roadmap for entrepreneurs to help us get there.”
— Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google
“If you read one business book in the twenty-first century, this should be the one. When Peter and I cofounded Singularity University, we based it on the ideas of exponential change and ‘learn by doing.’ This book clearly explains how to apply these concepts to change the world and overcome the age old afflictions of human civilization.”
— Ray Kurzweil, inventor, author, director of engineering at Google, Chancellor of Singularity University
“In BOLD, Diamandis and Kotler have written another dazzler. A riveting look inside the world of exponential entrepreneurship—action-packed and action-oriented. I’ve purchased a copy for my entire team at Cisco."
— Padmasree Warrior, CTO & Chief Strategy Office, CISCO
“I loved Peter Diamandis’ and Steven Kotler’s book Abundance, their writing and their Vision. BOLD is an amazing sequel, a book that every entrepreneur should read. It is inspiring, filled with incredible insights and offers a practical how-to game plan for going big and impacting the world.”
— Michael Dell, CEO, Dell Computers
"Expressed with sunny optimism and promise, Diamandis and Kotler share their extensive experience and knowledge, hoping to boost innovative potential within the technology startup arena and inspire readers to "get off the couch and change the world." An empowering and multifaceted "playbook" for the creative entrepreneur."
— Kirkus
"This is a manual for today’s big thinkers to become tomorrow’s bold leaders, using crowd-powered tools accessible to everyone."
— Booklist
"This invigorating discussion drives home the point that with better tools than we've ever had before, what we need most of all are great leaders."
— Publishers Weekly
“It makes bold predictions and teaches entrepreneurs how to thrive in the same way as our mammalian ancestors: by being nimble and resilient.”
— HuffingtonPost.com