Artificial intelligence
Climate change
Cyber warfare
Daily body abuse (earbuds, noise, phone-submission-posture, air pollution, sitting)
Fragile cloud infrastructures
Fragile financial infrastructures
Fragile water, power, communication infrastructures
Microbiome neglect
Nuclear terror
Pandemics (human-driven)
Pandemics (human-made)
Scientific ignorance in the US
Technology addiction
Unhealthy work environments
We are not prepared for the ethical choices technology poses for humanity
Every threat / problem is an opportunity. If you work on something that you and other people find meaningful, lots of things become easier (e.g., creativity, recruiting and retention, selling).
Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur (Business model design)
Ben Horowitiz (The difficult and unglamorous side of startups)
Read the above first. I refer to and recommend them all the time.
Greg McKeown (Setting priorities, managing your time capital)
Jonathan Toomey (Using numbers to solve problems)
Cloud infrastructure
Bitcoin, blockchain
Data analysis
Ethical apparel
Fintech
Health tech
Liberation technologies
Marketplaces for good
Mobile business apps
Privacy management
Security
Sensory enhancement
Social impact
We tend to pursue markets that are big today and trending towards huge b/c they will likely be defining dimensions of our future world.