CHAPTER 4

The Entrepreneur Economy

“For what is the use of new knowledge if it doesn’t lead to novel behaviors?”

—Yuval Noah Harari1

  • The future economy will enable more opportunity for individual contractors, enterprises of one, and small groups operating a business.
  • We will no longer think of “small business” but of innovation-driving entrepreneurs finding new and better ways to serve consumers.
  • The individual or small group will be vastly augmented by knowledge, access, reach, and technology.
  • All enterprises can have global scale and global efficiencies.
  • Opportunities for collaboration will be unlimited, barriers and costs raised by intermediaries will be reduced, and new organizational forms will be open to anyone who can contribute to an ...

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