“There's always a question when you invest. Are you too early, are you too late, or are you just right? And there was a lot of hype about life sciences, around the sequencing of the human genome and a lot of people concluded that's not really there. But by the way, there was a lot of hype around the digital revolution just about the time of 2000 and the human genome, and it turns out that some of the world's biggest, most powerful companies are the survivors post that crash.” PeopleWorldWayHumansTurnsPowerfulCompanyRevolutionLatePostsToo LateDigitalMost PowerfulSurvivorCrashHypeGenomeDigital RevolutionSequencing Author:Juan Enriquez
“When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.” TechnologyRevolutionUnderstoodIndiaChinaDominantNew TechnologyIndustrial Revolution Author:Juan Enriquez
“When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country, which had the income per capita of Ghana in 1965, and make it something similar to the United States in one generation.” CountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesGenerationsRevolutionIncomeDigitalSingaporeGhanaDigital Revolution Author:Juan Enriquez
“If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.” IfsMenDifferentRevolutionDiedGreenStatuesDifferent PlaceWandsGreen Revolution Author:Juan Enriquez