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"At the moment, we're living in a world where cloud, social and mobile, three disruptive technologies are happening simultaneously. We've never had three technologies disruptions happening at the same time like in the last 40 years of IT. And that's why we're living in a world of digital disruption, which is another way of kind of explaining"

"The World's Foremost Knowledge Network The World Economic Forum's Network of Global Agenda Councils is the world's foremost interdisciplinary knowledge network dedicated to promoting innovative thinking on critical global issues, regions and industries, and incubating projects, campaigns and events for the public good. The Network convenes the most relevant and knowledgeable thought leaders from academia, government, business and civil society to challenge conventional thinking, develop new insights and create innovative solutions for key global challenges. In a global environment marked by short-term orientation and siloed thinking, the Network fosters interdisciplinary and long-range thinking on the prevailing challenges on the global agenda."

"One of the things I learned early in my work as a professional investor is that the world is literally awash in capital. There is so much money seeking return - from traditional mutual funds and university endowments, to family offices and family foundations, to Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and developing-world oligarchs with global investment appetites - that there simply aren't enough places for it all to flow. Further, because these pools of capital are so large, managers need to deploy capital in large increments simply to make it feasible to manage and track their portfolios."

CrunchBase is used by millions of consumers, analysts, and investors every month to track what's happening in the fast-paced world of tech startups, and we're growing. The key to our continued success is building a robust and scalable system that can capture and reflect the complex relationships amongst participants in the industry. Right now, we have the unique opportunity to technically and experientially "reboot", taking all the lessons of running CrunchBase up to this point and build a brand new CrunchBase from the ground up. Sound exciting? It does to us.

"The Bottom-line:  In the The As-a-Service Economy, we only care about achieving our desired outcomes  Here's the nub of the argument, while people like Hillary Clinton want to turn back the clock and protect the legacy job-for-life, the vast majority of people really do not care that labor forces are being disrupted, along with legacy business models and obsolete practices.  Today's world is all about faster, cheaper, more accessible services - and to hell with any obsolete process, system or person which gets in the way of convenient and affordable As-a-Service models."