The Personal Revolution
Tools in the field
Tools migrate to factories
City of Toronto Archives, James Collection
Tools meet the assembly line
Bandwidth
281
peta
471
peta
petabytes
2000
2,253
66,560
petabytes
2007
1986
1993
Fiber Optic Cable. Image courtesy: Karen_OD
Storage
exabytes
2.6
exabytes
15.8
exabytes
2000
54.5
295
exabytes
2007
1986
1993
Computation
3x10
4x10
MIPS
3x108
MIPS
11
6.4x10
MIPS
12
MIPS
1986
1993
2000
2007
The App Explosion
IBM 360
244
Apple II
490
Windows
Android
70,000
Apple
1M
900,000
1973
1983
1993
2003
2013
33M
22M
0.1M
6.6K
750
375
IBM 3340 computers
34
IBM 3340 computers
29
Dell 486 desktop computers
2
PowerBook G4 laptops
1
Samsung Galaxy S4
1994
2006
2007
2013
15.4 M 17 M
11 M
674 M
Tools in perspective
2000 Systems Database Office Productivity Texting Voicemail / IVR Video conferencing $ $ $ $ $ $
2013
Tools become ~ free
2000 Recruiting Sales Promotion Marketing Fulfillment Customer Service $ $ $ $ $ $
2013
Tools become ~ free
The Center of the Personal Revolution
The Data Factory
Labor
Money
Global
Members on LinkedIn
238M
Directors at Fortune 1,000 companies
1.6M
11.7M+
Opinion leaders
CXO's/Owners/Partners
23.6M
Global microphone for content
Richard Branson
Founder at Virgin Group
Barack Obama
President of the United States
Arianna Hufngton
President & Editor-in-Chief at The Huffington Post
Jack Welch
Founder of Jack Welch Management Institute
Bill Gates
Co-chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jim Kim
President at The World Bank
Maria Shriver
Journalist, Author & Activist
Shinzo Abe
Prime Minister of Japan
Maria Bartiromo
Television Journalist at CNBC-TV
Jamie Dimon
Chairman & CEO at JPMorgan Chase
UNPAID content contributors
18% month over month growth 40+ locations around the world
Sam Taylor
President & Owner, TNT transportation Expanded his business and hired more drivers thanks to Uber
35% month over month revenue growth
Laura Barnum
College Student - University of San Francisco Worked 20-30 hours a week between classes and made over $20/hour
75% of 15,000 TaskRabbits nationwide rely on TaskRabbit to pay bills 10% earn 100% of their income
Earns $7,000 a month using TaskRabbit, relying on it for 100% of her income
Rosemarie
25 M sellers 1.3 M sellers use eBay as a primary/ secondary source of income.
Jordan Insley
eBay Store owner Major refurbished TV business
The average click through rate of an Adword is 4x compared to display ads
King Arthur Flour
A 200 year old startup rebooted itself as a successful baking company, providing classes and products
$4B paid by advertisers, up 60% in 2012 from 2011 >1M creators signed up
Michelle Phan
4.6M subscribers
YouTube Lancome spokesperson
2M sellers on 10 different marketplaces around the world
Brice Hoskin
Mountain Boy Sled Works Sells more than 14K sleds a year using Amazon marketplaces
1/4 of the top 100 best selling eBooks on [Link] were independently published using KDP
Theresa Ragan
Rejected by traditional publishers Sold nearly 250,000 books for the Kindle
3,000 consulting partners 1,800 technologists / ISVs
Ben Silbermann
Pinterest Cofounder 17M users in 9 months with fewer than 12 people
>2% of all active internet sites are Weebly sites.
Cari
Closed her retail gift shop and built [Link] using Weebly. In 2012, made over 5,000 products by hand.
3M guests in 2012. 300,000 listings at the end of 2012.
David
Uses Airbnb to subsidize his schooling. Hosted guests from Saudi Arabia, London, Afghanistan, and Mexico.
31M visitors use Trulias site every month
Hedda Parashos
Went from under $100K in gross commissions to over $600K in gross commissions. Bought the real estate firm that she worked for.
250,000 home improvement professionals build their brands and connect with homeowners
Jodie Rosen
Started her own line of furniture after exposure from Houzz.
$10B processed annually 40K merchants on board
Ships 20,000 bracelets a week to the US. Employs dozens of people in Costa Rica and more than 500 campus reps in the U.S.
(* end of FY2012)
Pura Vida
6.6M editor sessions 400K monthly active developers
Alex Schwartz
Chief Scientist at Owlchemy Labs
One of several indie gaming studios enabled by Unity3D.
$100M goods sold in July 2013 1M members joined in July 2013
Sarah
Seattle Landmark Mugs Now sells them in Nordstrom. Quit her day job
2,200,000
1,800,000
80,000
40,000
Median Household Income
$
43,868
* Inflation adjusted
52,762
2012
1968
Minimum Wage
$
10.70
1968
7.25
2013
GDP Growth 2002-2012
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
China
Indonesia
India
Brazil United States
Source: The World Bank Figures in current USD
H1-B Visas granted in 2011
China Russia Spain UK France Japan
10,165 873 684 2,573 1,517 1,276
Excluding and deporting talent
[Link] Yandex Asos Tencent Alibaba Baidu 360 Buy Ctrip Naver Y! Japan Rakuten
The Personal Revolution explodes
The Personal Revolution
