Kevin Kelly

So now what are you going to do with your billion dollars?

And it turns out that their dream, whatever it is, can be accomplished for so little compared to a billion dollars that in most cases, money is simply not the gating factor for what most people want to do.

There was a great scene in, I think it was Wall Street, where this guy going to Wall Street and his whole goal, just a couple more years, going to make my fortune, and then I'm going to quit so I can buy the motorcycle and ride across China.

And all of us travelers just laugh hilariously because you could work at McDonald's for six months.

save enough money to buy a motorcycle to ride across China.

You don't need to go into Wall Street to make your billions to do that.

And so I find that the focus, you certainly need to have enough to do the things that you want,

But for most people's dreams, it's a misplaced hurdle.

Imagine they don't have enough money because, in fact, what we know about innovation is that all the real breakthroughs come from the places where there's not enough money.

Startups.

The reason why a startup can succeed is because the big company wants to buy their solutions.

They've got money.

They're going to buy their solutions.

But the solutions can't be bought.

They have to be invented.

They have too much money to do the hard work of being ingenious and frugal and thrifty and all the other stubborn and persevering that a startup can do.

So the startup doesn't have any money.

So they're forced to invent the things in a way that if you had money, you'd never get to.

And that's why all the breakthroughs happen at the edges and they happen in startups.

That lacking of the resources is actually the feature, is actually the benefit of