We chose Next Billion for its dual meaning: on the one hand, the phrase represents the next billion people to rise into the middle class from the base of the economic pyramid (BoP); on the other, it indicates the next billion(s) in profits for businesses that fill market gaps by integrating the BoP into formal economies.
I have 14 years experience in the industry with the majority of my time spent in digital marketing and user experience design.
I’m doing a good deal of thinking about what it takes to make a customer, an employee, or anyone within a relevant ecosystem an advocate.
Waking Up Early to Watch TV:
I’d gladly get up at 7 AM as a kid to watch the “Muppet Babies”. Nowadays I’m more prone to getting home at 7AM.
What’s your favorite outfit on a chick?
Chicks are beautiful, they can be wearing anything and we still think you’re beautiful.
His novels and stories often have to do with black comedy, parody, satire, and Zen Buddhism.
Starting in the 1930s and continuing on through the 1950s, when American car manufacturers starting coming into their Golden Age and owning a car became not a sign of wealth but a trademark of the middle class, these companies starting snatching up streetcar properties. Now, while some of them bought the streetcar lines to create an internal monopoly in which these public transit systems would run only, say, GM buses and cars, others ripped up the streetcars and shut them down when they weren’t quote-unquote profitable enough.
