Rik Kirkland

Physicist. Ex-CEO (biotech). Author of LOONSHOTS 🚀 amzn.to/34GKeTH 2w Edited Ed Catmull, the CEO and founder of Pixar, recently sent me his revised edition of #Creativity, Inc., which launched last week. What I love about Ed's book is that it picks up where Andy Grove leaves off. Andy Grove's 'Only the Paranoid Survive' is the classic book on navigating market threats (Grove was the CEO of Intel). The main message is the extraordinary attention you have to pay to *external* threats.

President and CEO of PayPal, Dan Schulman reflects on what it takes for businesses to earn trust - and why doing so is going to matter more than ever. Being a company that embodies trust means that your mission and values should make it clear that you stand for more than just maximizing profit. There’s been such an erosion of trust around the world, Schulman believes it’s going to continue to be a huge potential differentiator.

Cities drive the global economy. During the next five years, 65 percent of the world’s GDP growth is expected to come from just 600 cities, despite those cities making up only 20 percent of the world’s population. Cities are the centers of wealth and prosperity—the GDP per capita of the world’s megacities is 80 percent higher than the GDP of the rest of their respective national economies.