The document discusses the importance of daring to take on significant challenges and the technological advancements that have dramatically transformed the world. It highlights current innovations, such as autonomous vehicles and medical breakthroughs, and emphasizes the potential for future technological revolutions that can address major global challenges. The author expresses a belief in the power of human ingenuity and innovation to drive progress and create wealth.

2. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to
rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor
suffer much because they live in the gray twilight
that knows neither victory nor defeat.
THEODORE “TEDDY” ROOSEVELT
26th President of the United States,
1906 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and “Rough Rider”

3. They have a way of sneaking up on us.
BIG THINGS

4. For instance...

5. Do you realize that when Seinfeld went off the air in 1998,
Google had not even been invented yet?

6. Over 800 million people visit YouTube each month
and they watch over four billion hours of video.

7. The domain www.youtube.com was
first registered on February 14, 2005.

8. The most profitable company
in the history of the world…

9. …has been surpassed by
a technology company.

10. That smartphone in your pocket is more powerful than
every computer at NASA when we went to the moon…
COMBINED.

11. And there are now more than one billion people
with smartphones in their pockets.

12. That’s a lot of NASAs.

13. BIG THINGS
They have a way of
changing the world.

14. Look around you…
It is easy to take the world we’ve built for granted.

15. 200 years ago, industrial machines
transformed every aspect of our world.

16. Over the past 40 years,
computers transformed everything again.

17. And in the process created
a lot of very, very wealthy people.

18. It’s easy to think we
have technologically
ARRIVED.

19. It's even easier
to forget we have only
JUST BEGUN.

20. They have a way of
redefining “normal.”
BIG THINGS

21. CLIMATE • HEALTHCARE COSTS • PANDEMICS
TERRORISM • POVERTY • POPULATION EXPLOSION
RESOURCE SHORTAGES • RISING ENERGY DEMAND
INFRASTRUCTURE COLLAPSE • CYBERSECURITY
DRINKING WATER SHORTAGES • EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
PRIVATE SPACE EXPLORATION
Over the next 50 years, we will face
massive and historic challenges.

22. Some people say there’s no hope
of solving these challenges.

23. Those people are crazy.

24. We are a species that
dares mighty things.

25. We know we can solve tomorrow’s challenges,
because that’s what we do.

26. The next technological age
is already starting.

27. Right now people are creating
driverless, autonomous cars that will
revolutionize transportation and safety.

28. Right now people are creating
spray on skin for burn victims
grown from their own skin cells.

29. Right now people are creating
eye implants that will give sight to the blind.

30. Right now people are creating
computer interfaces you will control with your mind.

31. Right now people are creating
handheld medical devices that will
diagnose symptoms better than a doctor.

32. Right now people are creating
machines that will mine nearby
asteroids for precious metals.

33. Right now people are creating
next gen computer chips that will
surpass Moore’s Law.

34. Right now people are creating
fuel cells that will generate onsite
electricity, free of the power grid.

35. The next technological age will transform our world
in ways we can’t even imagine.

36. And the wealth it creates
will be enormous.

37. We are a Venture Capital firm
that finds, funds, and builds
BIG THINGS

38. We invest in early-stage companies
with ambitious innovation.

39. We believe the future belongs to the dreamers,
the ones who don’t set boundaries.

40. We believe solving the next real challenge
is what pushes humanity forward.

41. We believe in
BIG THINGS

43. Image Sources and Credits
Apollo Rocket - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Apollo_15_launch_medium_distance.jpg
Seinfeld - http://www.elhablador.com.mx/?p=346
Exxon Sign - http://forestparkgeorgia.blogspot.com/2012/06/exxon-forest-park-georgia-gas-station.html
Tim Cook - http://en.tengrinews.kz/opinion/107/
NASA Control Room - http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/photos/1969/captions/KSC-69P-0856.html
New York City - http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details/1740/rockefeller%27s_view.html
Printing Press - http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/tribune/11/wf_1142.htm
Prosthetic Arm - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/talking-back/2013/01/23/action-plan-making-brain-
controlled-prosthetics-that-can-open-a-clothespin/
Mars rover celebration - http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/08/06/we-must-dare-mighty-things-a-
successful-glorious-triumph-on-mars/
Self driving car - http://www.industrytap.com/we-will-all-be-in-driverless-cars-by-2020/517
Spray on skin - http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/spray-on-skin-burn-victims.htm
Brain implant for vision - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9243223/Eye-implant-restores-
vision-to-blind-patients.html
Brain computer interface - http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134682-hackers-backdoor-the-human-brain-
successfully-extract-sensitive-data
Scandau scout - http://www.scanadu.com
Asteroid mining - http://www.multivu.com/mnr/55879-planetary-resources-inc-plans-to-mine-asteroids-for-
precious-resourcess
Fuel Cells - http://www.bloomenergy.com

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