BOLD

How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World
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About BOLD

In BOLD, Steven and Peter offer a highly practical playbook that arms today’s entrepreneurs, activists and leaders with the tools and techniques they need to positively impact the world while simultaneously making their biggest dreams come true.To make good on that promise, the book unfolds in three parts: Part One focuses on the exponential technologies which are disrupting today’s Fortune 500 and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to go from ‘I’ve got a new idea’ to ‘I run a billion-dollar company’ far faster than ever before.Part Two of the book focuses on the Psychology of Bold—the mental toolkit that allows the world’s top innovators to raise their game by thinking at scale, including detailed advice and lessons from technology gurus such as Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos. Also in Part Two, Steven reveals the keys to ultimate human performance garnered from fifteen years of research with the Flow Research Collective and other projects - and I reveal my entrepreneurial secrets garnered from starting seventeen companies.Part Three closes the book with a look at the incredible power and essential best practices that allows anyone to leverage today’s hyper-connected crowd like never before. Here, you’ll learn how to harness crowdsourcing solutions to massively increase the speed of your business, to design and use incentive competitions to find breakthrough solutions, to launch million-dollar crowdfunding campaigns to tap into tens of billions of dollars of available capital, and finally, to build exponential communities—armies of exponentially enabled individuals willing and able to help today’s entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true.

Reviews

“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.”
Bill Clinton
42nd U.S. President
“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
“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
"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
"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
“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
“The infectious optimism of Bold is inspirational.”
New York Times "DealBook" Blog
"A guide to exponential digital chutzpah from a master of the art of ‘going big.'"
Financial Times
“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 Officer, CISCO
“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
"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