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 Amazon.com 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 Coquettebath.com 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

Mail.ru Yandex Asos Tencent Alibaba Baidu 360 Buy Ctrip Naver Y! Japan Rakuten

The Personal Revolution explodes

The Personal Revolution