27/52: Fortune favours the bold
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The 2010s was the decade of the Entrepreneur.
The 2020s will be the decade of the Investor.
“Technology alone will not bring us this better world. It is up to you and me”
Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler
Did you see this?
Above is a video of a Tesla Model Y delivering itself from the Tesla Gigafactory in Texas to its new owner's home around 30min away1.
Naturally there has been cynical speculation online that roads were closed off, there was an accompanying vehicle, and a team of Tesla engineers were there at the end of the journey so it’s not really a self-delivery, so it’s not really that impressive, so…
Urgh, what a position to take eh?
Be an encourager
Even if there was a bit of a bit of jiggery-pokery just look at what was going on there. I can’t help but imagine when my car is like that, or this, and the average speed driving up to Northumberland is 200mph or more.
We’re not done yet
And this is why I love being in the investing-in-startups world, there’s nothing else quite like it.
In the past someone came up with and pitched the idea of building a canal with locks so that massive ships can go from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back again, here.
More recently someone else came up with and pitched the idea of processing materials up in orbit and returning them to Earth so we can use them, here.
I mean, can you believe it?! There are endless examples.
In the future you and I will colonise other planets, starting with Mars, we’ll cure cancers, dementia, multiple sclerosis and more3, and we’ll have robots that can build other robots that will ________ [fill in what you want to happen here. Or even better, go create it].
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This was also in the week where we saw real-world testing of the first Robotaxis taking customers here, there and everywhere.
In a big way or small I think we must be encouragers of founders and startups, and I wrote about that here.
Interestingly this may be done by the Arc Institute, here, which was started in 2021 by two people who came up with and pitched the idea of a new standard in online payments in 2010.