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Bold

By: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
Narrated by: Steven Kotler
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Publisher's summary

Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions.

Exploring the exponential technologies that are disrupting today's Fortune 500 companies and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to go from "I've got an idea" to "I run a billion-dollar company" far faster than ever before, the authors provide exceptional insight into the power of 3-D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic biology. Drawing on insights from billionaire entrepreneurs Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos, the audiobook offers the best practices that allow anyone to leverage today's hyper connected crowd like never before. The authors teach how to design and use incentive competitions, launch million-dollar crowdfunding campaigns to tap into tens of billions of dollars of capital, and build communities - armies of exponentially enabled individuals willing and able to help today's entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true.

Bold is both a manifesto and a manual. It is today's exponential entrepreneur's go-to resource on the use of emerging technologies, thinking at scale, and the awesome impact of crowd-powered tools.

©2015 PHD Ventures (P)2015 Simon and Schuster
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" 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." (President Bill Clinton)

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Great content, mediocre narration.

This book covers exponential technologies and how to leverage them. Use of incentive prices and crowd funding pay a major role.

It's unfortunate that it's narrated by one of the authors, who has a great voice but fails to enunciate many words properly and often stops mid-sentence and thereby breaking the flow.

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Lofty and Practical

This book was a great mix of a lofty vision and practical application. I enjoyed the narrator and I also enjoyed how the book starts off with a grand purpose and the breaks it down into chunks of information that are doable by the reader.

I am inspired to come up with something BOLD to do with my life!

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Must read

This is one of the best books I have ever listened to... If you believe you can change the world . This book will help you

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amazing!

A must listen for any science or entrepreneur that wants to suceed in the future

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IMPRESSED

Steven Kotler and Peter Diamandis are a visionary duo. This book is a powerfully insightful look into the world of entrepreneurial possibilities.

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fantastic!

Loved it & learned much about new & former technologies (I.e. prizes for commercial space travel, 3d printing etc) & their applications for now and the future! Global disruptive nature & mass connectivity of all of these changes is explained in a fascinating way as well, an entrepreneuer's dream!

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Eye openning and a great read!

What did you like about this audiobook?

It talks about the near future... Its absolutely eye opening...
A must read for anyone in the eCommerce / entrepreneurial work space

How has the book increased your interest in the subject matter?

Yes... Read "Zero to One", (great read), "Exponential Organizations", and will continue reading about the subject.

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Yes, good stories and good insights. Author is an expert in the subject.

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Gone through the book twice!

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mind blowing!

Mind. Blown. You have to read this book! 3-d printing. AI. Robotics. Crowd-sourcing. Asteroid-mining. I was addicted 10 minutes into reading and could hardly wait to get anything and everything that book wanted to tell me into my head. You want to change the world? That particular mission was not on my to-do list before reading this, but now, I'm like "why not?" The advances in technology in the last few years are STAGGERING! I've read tons of business books, but this is the first to be truly current and offer actual sources and resources. 

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Startups, listen-up!!

An inspirational read for the dreamer. Must read if you're a startup entrepreneur. A fast read (listen) so get ready!

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Great book and insights on the future

I couldn't stop listening. The book has great ideas, examples and actionable tools to get started now. Motivational and inspiring.

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