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Historically there had always been 4 Levers for building a business.
- Capital
- Land
- Labor
- Media
The 5th Lever is: Artificial Intelligence.
AI is not a feature, it is an architecture. AI is not something that is bolted on. AI is baked into an AI First company and is leveraged to create an entirely new business model. Capital and Land combined to create the real estate wealth creation machine. Add Labor to Capital and Land, you get skyscrapers and the great cities of the world. Henry Ford did not invent the car, he invented a new way to leverage labor, in the assembly line, to manufacture cars in a new way that changed the world, created the 5 dollar work day and won WWII. The Lever of Media includes audio visual and news, but also the Network and the Code that allows for Network Effects to exponentially grow our ability to communicate. We are doing that now, righ here on this page.
There have been 4 Major Economic Epochs of modern history:
- Agriculture
- Industrial
- Computing
- Internet
The 5th Major Economic Epoch is: Artificial Intelligence.
The 5th Lever combined with the 5th Epoch creates our opportunity to create a new generation of wealth and prosperity. There has been a Forbes 500 for the richest people and Fortune 500 for the most valuable companies.
Introducing the 5th 500.
The 500 companies that will be the most valuable in this new Major Epoch. Today, many of these 500 are just getting started. Many are still just an idea burning a hole in the soul of the founder. Some are further along and already emerging into the market. Some are existing companies that do not want to be Borders in the dawn of Amazon. These companies are carving out a core team with CEO level backing to entirely recreate the business model to utilize the 5th Lever for the 5th Epoch. Closely in our rear view mirrors, we can still see companies successfully navigating the 4th Major Epoch. And we can remember those that did not navigate the 4th Major Epoch.
About Your Author
John Galt builds. There is some John Galt in most of us. Some of us tapped into it long ago. Others, there is something that is stirring and being fealt that they really didn't know existed.
Acceleration is the startup garage ethos that we can build and fix our problems. The problems of society and the problems that exist in the market that can be solved and monetized.
I support builders, creatives, coders, mavens, connectors and investors. We are all dreamers. There are dreamers of the night and dreamers of the day. This is a place for those who dream during the day.
Who get shit done.
Who get back up.
Who continue on despite the naysayers from outside the arena.
33 years ago a dreamer had a vision. For 33 years that dreamer has kept at it. Whatever it takes to keep moving forward. That vision has been built piece by piece. Brick by brick. And the time is now.