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Alexia Parks

Alexia Parks

Posted: June 21, 2010 03:07 PM

Disruptive Technologies: From Zero to Five Billion in 18 months

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The company's venture capitalists wanted to grow it to $15 billion. The CEO ignored their advice and sold it for five. A few months later, the stock market took a nose-dive and the company dropped with it. How did he know it was time to sell? As he put it, "My business school professor once told me that the job of the CEO is to grow a company and then know when to sell it.


His decision has just been made easier by Afghan President Hamid Karzai's announcement that Japan -- not the U.S. - will gain access to mining his country's vast mineral deposits. Things will only get uglier in Afghanistan, as greed moves out in the open, to the frontlines.

Back home in the U.S., it's time to begin the conversion of war industries to peacetime industries. Mississippi Republican governor Haley Barbour is short-sighted, when he laments that the temporary moratorium on offshore oil drilling in the Gulf "is worse" than the British Petroleum oil spill.




As he and his wife Anne said good night, he offered a parting shot to the CEO. "I'm
going to grow my company to $5 billion in only 15 months."

Hearing this, the CEO shook his fist in the air, as if to punch a hole in the sky. "How dare you break my record," he shouted, then broke out in a big laugh.


The idea of setting up new businesses in an atmosphere of friendly desks that face each other, is the inspiration of Thomas Frey, Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute. Frey is also Google's top rated futurist speaker. In a future column, I'll describe the daily life of these young "hatchlings" who are each growing small businesses in The Vault, a building that once housed a now defunct BIG bank.

Parkinomics is an Amazon business and motivational bestseller. It has been called a 'Job Hunter's Boot Camp in a Book' and focuses on careers in the New Economy. Parkinomics includes ideas and links to resources.


Alexia Parks offers workshops and online tele-seminars for people in transition to jobs in the New Economy. With 61 percent of people wanting to be their own boss, she shows how to tap into your skills and passion to create a DREAM job that offers you a life of meaning, prosperity and purpose. Learn more on


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