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Moore’s Law
Exponential Improvement
Source: Deloitte report, The next billion dollar idea
Race to Reach One Billion User
Exponential Time Calls for Exponential Thinking
Bekkozha Muslimov
Investment Director at Blue Wire Capital
Exponential Time: Disruptive Forces Are
Multiplying
Who We Are?
Blue Wire Capital:
• Is London-based venture capital firm
• Founded in 2013
• Invests in early stage technology companies
• Invests in venture funds
What we are looking for:
• Big market with huge customer pain
• Authentic entrepreneur and A class
team
• Unfair competitive advantage
Our Focus: Our Portfolio:
Four Disruptive Forces
Now Future
Collaborative Economy Age Autonomous World Age
Connected EcosystemUnbundling
1
2
3
4
…And The Threats Are Multiplying
Costs to launch Internet start-up
Unbundling 1
Democratisation of Opportunities Unbundling 1
• Founder of Summly
• Algorithm for news summary
• Institutional VC money
• Acquired by Yahoo for $30m
Unbundling
Fintech
Unbundling 1
Every imaginable industry is being unbundled
Car Energy HealthcareLogistics MediaFinance
Source: CB Insights
Sharing Economy Collaborative
Economy 2
Impact of Disruption
A properly shared car is
$270,000
Lost Revenue
Of auto sales
1 shared car = 9 cars at average of
$30k each
But what about loans, taxes, gas,
parking, dealer services, resale and
more?
Collaborative
Economy 2
Car Makers Response
Collaborative
Economy 2
 Volkswagen invested $300 million in Israeli start-up
Gett
 General Motors invested $500 million in U.S.-based
Lyft and announced partnership to use GM’s self-
driving cars as part of Lyft’s fleet
 Toyota stroke strategic partnership with Uber on
leasing cars
 Apple committed a $1 billion investment in Didi
Chuxing, the leading service in China
Gig Economy
Collaborative
Economy 2
Meet Andreas
• Age - 24
• Came from Denmark
• Study art
• Pay own living costs
• Works evening shifts
• Earns £800 pm
• Loves cycling
Share of income from gig economy
Monthly income from gig economy
The Next Big Wave of Disruption
Connected Car
Connected Home
Connected
Ecosystem 3
Result? Unexpected newcomers
UberHealth Toyota Insurance
Connected
Ecosystem 3
Advancements in AI
Autonomous
World Age 4
1997 2016
What type of business disruption we
should expect from advancements in AI?
Autonomous
World Age 4

Exponential Time: Disruptive forces are multiplying