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The Biggest Winners in the Pivot to Smart Cities

Smart cities will bring a host of new technologies to the forefront, and wise investors should keep an eye on those companies.

How Exponential Progress Means More Money Faster

If you’re like a lot of people, you might assume that autonomous vehicles (AVs) are some kind of “Jetsons” idea that will take years – if not decades – to play out. There’s good reason for that. Conventional progress is like going for a walk. You take one step, you advance one step. After taking 10 steps, you are 10 steps away from where you started. Pretty simple, right? Well, exponential progress – the kind taking place in technology labs and businesses RIGHT NOW – radically changes the equation… and radically accelerates the pace of change we see in the world.

How AVs Can Make You Rich Even if People Don’t Buy Them

We’ve talked about how autonomous vehicles (AVs) will disrupt what is already a $7 trillion industry. We’ve talked about how sales of AVs could grow 660-fold in the coming decades. And we’ve talked about ways investors can double or triple their money… or more. But what if people don’t want to buy AVs? Hey, if you like driving your car, with your elbow out the window and the wind in your hair… If you like the smell of gasoline and like to change your carburetor… that’s fine. But even if people like you and me never buy a single autonomous vehicle, investors will still get rich – for one reason.

How the Gold Rush Strategy Can Make You a Fortune In the Transportation Transformation

Most investors are familiar with the “picks and shovels” approach to investing in a business or commodity boom. For good reason. The right picks and shovels investment offers big upside yet limited downside. This business model – selling picks and shovels to a booming industry – is extremely powerful. You get paid by all players, big and small. Any time I invest in a sector, I immediately look around for good “picks and shovels” plays. Let’s look at what kinds of “picks and shovels” the autonomous vehicle industry will need…

Trillions of Dollars Are About to Move from Old to New: Here’s How to Get Your Share

The car as we know it is on the verge of a transformative change not seen since Karl Benz invented it. In fact, the whole transportation sector is now poised for its version of 2.0. I’m not exaggerating when I say this will lead to trillions of dollars in money sloshing around in the coming decades. It’s a two-fold transformation. Electric vehicles (EVs) are phase one. At this point, only 1.3% of all new vehicles sold around the globe are EVss. That still small number shows the enormous growth potential in the coming decades. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) will make us even more money.