Technology's Impact on Industries & Careers

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As of this writing, which five firms have surpassed $1 trillion in value?

  • Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp) and Amazon
  • Apple, Microsoft, Meta (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp), Amazon and Nvidia
  • Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp) and Nvidia (correct)
  • Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Amazon and Nvidia

What portion of the world's economy is considered 'digital'?

Roughly 20 percent

What is market capitalization (market cap)?

The market cap of a publicly traded firm is its total value. Market cap can be calculated by multiplying the number of a firm's shares by its current share price.

What is R&D?

<p>Research and development is the portion of a firm focused on innovation, typically pioneering advances that will eventually arrive as new products and technologies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a microprocessor?

<p>The part of the computer that executes the instructions of a computer program.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a server farm?

<p>A massive network of computer servers running software to coordinate their collective use. Server farms provide the infrastructure backbone to SaaS and hardware cloud efforts, as well as many large-scale Internet services.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Tech jobs are declining and have little value.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

As of the writing of the text, what was Airbnb, the world's largest accommodations provider, worth?

<p>over $85 billion (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is pivoting?

<p>In product development and entrepreneurship, this involves significantly redefining the market, business, and/or product offering.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a term sheet?

<p>A legal document that is the agreement between a founding firm and its investors. It defines investment terms, ownership stake, board membership if offered, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Entrepreneurship has a minimum age requirement.

<p>False (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What factors are accelerating entrepreneurship?

<p>all of these listed (F)</p> Signup and view all the answers

A lack of proven return on investment (ROI) typically leads to a period of diminishing interest and investment-the _____ of disillusionment.

<p>trough</p> Signup and view all the answers

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Market Capitalization (Market Cap)

The total value of a publicly traded firm, calculated by multiplying the number of shares by the current share price.

Research and Development (R&D)

The division of a firm focused on innovation, typically creating advances that become new products and technologies.

Microprocessor

The part of the computer that executes the instructions of a computer program. aka: The calculating brain of computers.

Server Farm

A large network of computer servers running software to coordinate their collective use.

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Pivoting

Significantly redefining the market, business model, or product offering.

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Term Sheet

A legal document outlining the agreement between a founding firm and its investors.

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Hype Cycle

Plots market expectations against time, outlining five stages: emerging innovation, inflated expectations, disillusionment, enlightenment, and productivity.

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Moore's Law

A principle stating computing power increases exponentially over time, leading to faster, cheaper technology.

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Tech-enabled Strategy

Using technology to fundamentally transform business environments and create competitive advantages.

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Network Effects

The ability of some products and services to become more valuable as more people use them.

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Startup Accelerator

Organizations created to accelerate the growth of start-ups.

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Lean Startup

A method for developing a hypothesis-driven approach to creating products or businesses.

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Product Market fit

The ability of a product to satisfy the demands of the market.

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Value Chain

A strategy in which an organization concentrates on providing products in existing industries.

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Five Forces Model

A framework in industrial organization economics for assessing the competitive intensity of an industry.

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Generative AI - The Peril

AI can leave significant security vulnerabilities, particularly when free consumer products are used. They may hallucinate and create non-factual content.

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Generative AI - The Promise

AI can help with programming, automating tasks for lawyers and accountants, advancing clean tech, improving diagnoses, and fueling life-science breakthroughs.

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Management Information Systems

The application of information technology to support a company's operations and strategy.

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Study Notes

  • Technology has radically changed industries and societies in recent years.
  • The rapid pace of technological advancement creates both promise and peril for various entities.
  • Global regulators are working to curtail the overwhelming power and influence of tech giants.
  • Constant change, driven by technology, is a key aspect of modern careers.
  • Managers seem ill-equipped for the transition despite technology transforming business environments.

Present Day Tech Examples

  • Uber owns no vehicles, while being the world's largest "taxi service".
  • Airbnb doesn't own properties, yet is the largest accommodations provider.
  • Google, the most profitable advertiser, doesn't produce television shows or own networks.
  • Facebook doesn't create content even as the most visited media destination.
  • Many disruptive retailers own no product inventory.

Market Capitalization and R&D

  • Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying the number of a firm's shares by its price.
  • Research and development are the focus of a firm focused on innovation.

Digital Economy

  • Roughly 20 percent of the world's economy is considered "digital," with most of the remaining 80 percent reliant on it.
  • Tech firms hold the top spots in wealth creation and corporate power.
  • As of writing, Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp), Amazon, and Nvidia have surpassed $1 trillion in value.
  • These firms reached $1 trillion market capitalizations by dominating separate markets.
  • The firms increasingly compete with each other in new markets and invest heavily in artificial intelligence (AI).
  • Nvidia is a key "arms merchant" in the AI battle, providing the chips.

AI's Rise and Concerns

  • Nvidia is crucial for providing microprocessors used in artificial intelligence.
  • The company dominates the high-end AI chip market and sets premium prices.
  • Nvidia chips are for the heavy work of server farms.
  • Server farms are one area of Al-fueled spending.
  • Tech leaders are both excited and scared about AI.
  • Bill Gates has said that AI is "the most transformative technology any of us will see in our lifetimes."
  • Sundai Pichai(Alphabet CEO) says AI is an invention as profound as electricity and Promethean fire.
  • Over 1,100 scientists signed a joint letter asking AI labs to pause development for six months.
  • AI systems can actively discriminate and harm specific groups.

AI's Positive and Negative Impacts

  • Tech is being trained on copyrighted materials, uncompensated.
  • GenAI can cause security holes and can hallucinate.
  • AI requires massive and nearly constant job training.
  • AI can help programmers, lawyers, accountants.
  • The tech can fight crime, advance clean tech, diagnose diseases, and fuel life-science breakthroughs
  • AI was central during COVID vaccine development.

Tech's Uncertain Future

  • It's hard to predict which tech will be significant and disruptive.
  • Business leaders and pundits frequently guess wrong and lose.
  • Several years of digital-fueled growth were compressed into the COVID years.
  • Contactless payments, online grocery delivery, telehealth, and work-from-home boomed during the pandemic.
  • It took telephones seventy-five years to get to 50 million users, but it took ChatGPT 3.5 2 months to gain double that.
  • Apple is an example of a tech industry has-been that became the most valuable and profitable company in America.
  • Apple pushed creating platforms, not products with its integrated ecosystem.
  • Google has the most advertising revenue and has risen to become the most profitable media company.Meta, Facebook's parent, has an reach no media firm or government had ever remotely approached
  • Social media has been a catalyst for change.
  • Technology has no morality, the leading social media firms use platforms are used spread hate, pornography, terrorism and conspiracy theories
  • Tech Competition is also a global phenomenon
  • Fast/cheap tech empowers millions in emerging markets.
  • Mobile money can cut corruption.
  • Open-source software now powers most of the websites that you visit.
  • Cheap processors and software are powering the robotics and drone revolution
  • Many organizations collect datasets, referred to as "Big Data".
  • Data analytics, business intelligence, and so-called machine learning are driving discovery and innovation.
  • Major tech firms are also under antitrust investigation.
  • The recent layouts have may left to question the future of technology workers.

Key Takeaways

  • Tech firms have created profound shifts in how firms advertise and how individuals and organizations communicate.
  • Trillion-dollar firms are heavily investing in AI.
  • Al itself is a set of technologies that offer huge promise: from life-extending innovation to education improvements
  • Problems of AI including: incorrect answers, poor data, copyright concerns, and misuse by bad actors.
  • New technologies have: fueled globalization, redefined our concepts of software and computing, crushed costs, fueled data-driven decision making, and raised privacy and security concerns.
  • EU is leading in regulating tech firms, and EU regulation is likely to alter with and between firms.

Tech Leadership and Young Founders

  • Wealth accumulation is a fast-paced for young Bill Gates.
  • Gates appears in mugshot for traffic violation.
  • The Microsoft headquarter are still in Washington roots in New Mexico
  • Intersection where technology and business meet both terrifying and exhilarating if you're under the age of thirty, realize that this your space
  • World's Successful technology firms, were created by young people

Young Founders List Example

  • Bill gates founded micrsoft who was an undergrad.
  • Micheal Dell was when begin build computer his dorm room university of texas
  • Mark Zuckerberg was an college sophomore at 19 when founded facebook
  • Steve Jobs was about 21 when founded apple.
  • Kevin Systrom 26 when founded Instagram
  • Evan Spiegel drop out of college focus in new firm with value $ 15 billion
  • Tony Hsieh sold LinkExchange to Microsoft for over 0.25 billion
  • Founders all under age of 30 billion-dollar valued

How can a student be successful start up in collage

  • Find founders to mentors, experiment your startup ideas
  • University provide many resources that you will not need help when out -Attend a high-quality Startup Focuse -Build a student Club for networking and resources to help you find your way. -Participating through student clubs for a lot of time commitment that is better without a career to manage

The Tech Entrepreneurs

  • Napster by Shawn Fanning in just Nineteen is significant that help to open up the music business as well.
  • Linus that write and publish in Twenty One to became more open to the technology software.

Key points

-Ideas the vetted test online funding crowdsourced -App stores give up distribute to the the world. market of everyone crafting breakout hit a tough but jack port is immense. The jackpot can be immense. -Internet Entrepreneurs -> Peak Around Age 25,

Recommendations and Actions for Students

  • Finding the best in the coding skills
  • Have the tools to learn the code, and build apps
  • Have the best possible time to participate and start

Pivoting(Definition)

  • Product Development And Entrepreneurship. -> This Involves The Sign Re Defining Market Business

Term Sheet(defination)

Legal document that is agreement between the founding

  • Investment
  • ownership stake

Key Takeaways

Recognize that anyone reading this book has the potential to build an impactful business Entrepreneurship has no minimum age requirement

The ranks of technology revolutionaries

Filled with young people several leading Firms and innovation's launched entrepreneur's who started while roughly the age of average .

  • Many Students
  • Some are accelerating entrepreneurship and lowering cost -
  • Students can go with the help of others.

There are many options to give your business value

  • There are different methods available and some students offer low value.
  • Know who is there there to do what can be difficult
  • Always building and giving you good service

Career and Thriving

  • Skills are a key, high jobs are ready for anything that can thrive in business
  • It is a career and an essential step for those wanting a promotion and move forward
  • Moore's Law helps power the next great step

Accounting Roles

  • The business has to be stable for what has been going on and will the market thrive with what is being seen
  • Accounting is essential and the people in the field need to be ready to take the next step

Key Takeaways

•As technology becomes cheaper and more powerful it pervades more industries that make nontech function areas

  • Technology impacts several aspects of banking includes finance, accountant marketing. Resources and the laws ,
  • Teach jobs rank above all others and the business will increase to get people to rank the business

Hype Cycle(definition)

Is a constant race to get in and the next big thing which many firms have lost due to the need for capital.

  • Gartner

Gartner had the best advisory firms for helping and giving tech info is useful as well for moving on with their goals

  • Hype Cycle
  • Time, and understanding help to make better decision.

Key Takeaways

  • Press and other industry always with always tech with help to

  • Gartner is the most important to graph in all aspect of expectations and goals
  • Can be well together too work with technology
  • Hypocritical in the market

The main component

All aspects of technology will lead into the better understanding of how the the economy all have aspects to deal with.

  • The framework helps the team

Chapter Overviews

  • Chapter 2 - Tech fed value chain helped Spanish clothing giant Zara craft
  • Chapter 3 - Technology in competitive advantages.
  • Chapter 4 - Cover fresh tech role, also learn from missteps make to grow technology
  • Chapter 5 - Studies Netflix. Digital product , Revenue model etc
  • Chapter 6 - Focuses on technological change. Supercomputing great, the new one.
  • Chapter 7 - we introduces new concepts. The business goes on!
  • Chapter 8 - This will dive the focus a company can stay.
  • Chapter 9 - Look on the rise. and look at how it challenges indiltex
  • Chapter 10 - look at Facebook to Intel and Microsoft and the other companies.
  • Chapter 11- Look at the current media and business ideas.
  • Chapter 12 - discuss the challenges and aspects of all that's going on.
  • Chapter 13 - we'll look study success and failure in design, and deployments.
  • Chapter 14 - Will introduce two women and how they change business.
  • Chapter 15 - is on the technology that help mangers. and what's best to do
  • Chapter 16 - on everything that is needed in this field.
  • Chapter 17 - everything on technology and its place.
  • Chapter 18 is a focus on everything from start to end that you might not even know.
  • Chapter 19 is about advertising
  • Chapter 20 teaches one how the Internet runs and the steps to take moving forward.
  • Chapter 21 - helping mangers understand how the attack happened and how to stay secure.
  • Chapter 22- the best insight on that's is on every place with information given.

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