This is how Peter Diamandis thinks about being a billionaire:

“If you want to be a billionaire, then you are fortunate, because it’s never been easier for a common person to ascend to such great heights. A thousand years ago the only people who could impact a nation or region were the kings and the queens. A hundred year ago it was the factory owner and mine owner, the robber barons who could build the railroads, and affect the economy of a region or solve problems. Today it is all of us.

Anyone driven by a dream to solve a major problem could potentially do enough to impact a billion people. Today we have access to extraordinary technologies: artificial intelligence, virtual reality, 3D printing, cryptocurrencies, crowdsource platforms. The marketplace is being flooded with technologies that present innovative solutions to age-old problems.

The most dramatic change in our global economy is about to occur between 2016 and the present. Around 5 billion new customers, who have never purchased anything, never uploaded anything, and never invented and sold anything, are about to come online and provide a mega-surge to the global economy. While most of the individuals are in Africa, India, and China, and their income is low, when aggregated, this represents tens of millions of new dollars flowing into the global economy. What are you going to sell them?”

Peter Diamandis’s definition for being a billionaire: to influence a billion people. You can inherit a fortune, but to be a real, influential billionaire, you need skills. 

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