''Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World '' is a book by Peter H. Diamandis and

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that was published in 2015.

Theme

The book's three main points are: # How exponential technologies that are disrupting today's

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companies are emerging faster than ever before, contrasting “exponential entrepreneurs” against “linear-thinking executives” who work in major corporations. # The psychological aspects of the bold. Here, Diamandis discusses what he learned from building his 15 companies. # Best practices, such as incentive competitions, crowd funding campaigns, and community building.

Reception

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'' wrote that it "looks only on the bright side" and "overlooks some of the risks in exponential technologies, particularly the legal and ethical dilemmas they are creating." ''

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'' wrote that the "authors prefer to rhapsodize rather than analyze the consequences of technological advance" and that it shows how the

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people are "profoundly different" from the "rest of us".

References

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