Marcus Shingles believes failure is meant to define the true parameters of what real success could look like: “If you’re not failing enough it means you haven’t reached those edges.”
The XPRIZE CEO leads the innovation engine’s efforts to design epic public competitions that could benefit mankind – no mean feats that include space exploration and water scarcity. His huge prizes incentivise teams from around the world to compete to solve problems often considered unsolvable.
Shingles wants to create a culture where “the collective we” of the world tests things until they break and learns from those mistakes to take things that much further. He calls this the “democratisation of problem-solving”.
► We asked the exponential thinker to explain what he means when he says: “Uber yourself before you get Kodaked!”
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