Technology Entrepreneurship and the Disruption of Ambition
By Matt Clifford, EF CEO & Co-Founder
24 January 2017
By Matt Clifford, EF Co-Founder & CEO
There has been a great deal of analysis of how technology will disrupt life in the coming decades. Little of this, though, has looked at how technology is changing one of the most powerful forces in shaping society: ambition.
What the most ambitious people choose to do with their lives has a profound impact on society, the economy and culture. It’s changing, fast. At Entrepreneur First, we believe that building technology startups will become the ‘default’ career path for the world’s most ambitious people.
I argue three things below. First, that digital technology is the most recent in a series of ‘technologies of ambition’ that have enabled ambitious people to maximise their impact over the last millennium or so. Second, that technology entrepreneurship is likely to become the dominant ‘technology of ambition’. And third, that new institutions will be needed to channel, focus and amplify this new ambition (and that Entrepreneur First will be one of them).