Appendix C - Sources and Inspirations 

All the books below were extensively reviewed, analyzed, and cross-referenced with the ExO Model.

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Abel, Katie. 2020. “What to Know About New Zappos CEO Kedar Deshpande.” footwearnews.com. .

Anderson, Chris. 2006. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Hyperion.

Anderson, Chris. 2009. Free: The Future of a Radical Price. 1st Edition ed. N.p.: Hyperion.

Anderson, Chris. 2012. Makers: The New Industrial Revolution. N.p.: Crown Business.

Antonopoulos, Andreas M. 2016. The Internet of Money: Talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos. Edited by Sarah Zolt-Gilburne, S.H. E. Hariry, Maria Scothorn, and Pamela Morgan. N.p.: Merkle Bloom LLC.

Ashton, Kevin. 2016. How To Fly A Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Windmill Books.

Atkin, Douglas J. 2019. “How Airbnb found its Purpose and why it’s a good one.” Douglas John Atkin.

Azhar, Azeem. 2021. The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society. N.p.: Diversion Books.

Bacon, Jono. 2019. People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams. Illustrated edition ed. N.p.: HarperCollins Leadership. Foreword: Peter H. Diamandis.

Bacon, Jono. 2019. People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams. N.p.: HarperCollins Leadership.

Blablacar. 2021. “Culture.” blog.blablacar..

Blank, Steve, and Bob Dorf. 2012. The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. 1st edition ed. N.p.: K & S Ranch.

Blank, Steven G. 2013. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win. 2nd edition ed. N.p.: Cafepress.com.

Block, Peter. 2018. Community: The Structure of Belonging. N.p.: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Bonnet, Didier, Jerome Buvat, and Subrahmanyam KVJ. 2015. “When Digital Disruption Strikes: How Can Incumbents Respond?” Capgemini Consulting, 12.

Booth, Jeff. 2020. The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future. N.p.: Stanley Press.

Borders, Max. 2018. The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse. N.p.: Social Evolution.

Botsman, Rachel, and Roo Rogers. 2010. What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. Illustrated edition ed. N.p.: Harper Business.

Brand, Stewart. 1999. The Clock Of The Long Now: Time And Responsibility. First ed. N.p.: Basic Books.

Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Andrew McAfee. 2012. Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy. N.p.: Digital Frontier Press.

Brynjolfsson, Erik, and Andrew McAfee. 2014. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. Illustrated edition ed. N.p.: W. W. Norton & Company.

Case, Steve. 2017. The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future. N.p.: Simon & Schuster.

Catmull, Ed, and Amy Wallace. 2014. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration. Illustrated edition ed. N.p.: Random House.

cbinsights. n/a. “The Complete List Of Unicorn Companies.” cbinsights.com.

Chace, Calum. 2016. The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism. N.p.: Three Cs.

Cheng, Michelle. 2020. “Uber’s market value has just reached an all-time high.” qz.com.

Chesbrough, Henry. 2019. Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond the Hype and Getting Down to Business. N.p.: OUP Oxford.

Chou, Yu-Kai. 2015. Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards. N.p.: Octalysis Media.

Choudary, Paul. 2020. “The State of the Platform Revolution 2021.” Platforms, AI, and the Economics of BigTech.

Christensen, Clayton M. 2000. The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary National Bestseller That Changed The Way We Do Business. 1st HarperBusiness ed edition ed. N.p.: Harperbusiness.

Christensen, Clayton M. 2013. The Innovator’s Solution (Creating and Sustainability Successful Growth). 1st edition ed. N.p.: Harvard Business Review Press.

Christensen, Clayton M. 2016. The Clayton M. Christensen Reader. N.p.: Harvard Business Review Press.

Christensen, Clayton M. 2016. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. N.p.: Harvard Business Review Press.

Collins, Jim. 2001. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t. 1st edition ed. N.p.: HarperBusiness.

Collins, Jim. 2009. How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (Good to Great, 4). 1st edition ed. N.p.: JimCollins.

Collins, Jim, and Morten T. Hansen. 2011. Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All (Good to Great, 5). 1st edition ed. N.p.: Harper Business.

Collins, Jim, and Jerry I. Porras. 2004. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great, 2). 10th Revised ed. edition ed. N.p.: Harper Business.

Cooper, Brant, Patrick Vlaskovits, and Eric Ries. 2013. The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Wiley.

Cowen, Tyler. 2013. Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Dutton.

Craft. 2019. “How Old Are the $1B+ Tech Unicorn Companies?” Priceonomic.com.

Cusumano, Michael. 2001. Strategic Thinking for the Next Economy. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Jossey-Bass.

Cusumano, Michael A., David B. Yoffie, and Annabelle Gawer. 2020. “The Future of Platforms.” MIT Sloan Management Review. 

Davidow, William H., and Michael S. Malone. 1992. The Virtual Corporation: Structuring and Revitalizing the Corporation for the 21st Century. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Harpercollins.

Dean, Sam. 2020. “Tony Hsieh is gone, but his Las Vegas vision is finding new life.” thelatimes.com.

Deane, Steve. 2021. “2021 Airbnb Statistics: Usage, Demographics, and Revenue Growth.” stratosjets.com. 

Diamandis, Peter H., and Steven Kotler. 2012. Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series). N.p.: Free Press.

Diamandis, Peter H., and Steven Kotler. 2020. The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives (Exponential Technology Series). 1st edition ed. N.p.: Simon & Schuster.

Diaz, Ana. 2021. “What is Roblox? And how did it get so huge?” Polygon.

Doerr, John. 2018. Measure what Matters: OKRs - the Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth. N.p.: Portfolio Penguin.

Dyer, Jeff, Clayton Christensen, and Hal Gregersen. 2011. The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Harvard Business Review Press.

Earth Overshoot Day. 2021. overshootday.org. https://www.overshootday.org/.

Eggers, William D., and Paul Macmillan. 2013. The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society’s Toughest Problems. N.p.: Harvard Business Review Press.

Epstein, David J. 2019. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. N.p.: Riverhead Books.

Ertel, Chris, and Lisa K. Solomon. 2014. Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change. N.p.: Simon & Schuster.

Ferriss, Timothy. 2009. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich. Expanded, Updated ed. edition ed. N.p.: Harmony.

Fischer, Bill, Umberto Lago, and Fang Liu. 2013. Reinventing Giants: How Chinese Global Competitor Haier Has Changed the Way Big Companies Transform. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Jossey-Bass.

“5 Platform Businesses For The Next 5 Years.” 2021. Seeking Alpha.

Furr, Nathan, and Jeff Dyer. 2014. The Innovator’s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization. N.p.: Harvard Business Review Press. Forward: Clayton M. Christensen.

Gartenberg, Claudine, Andrea Prat, and George Serafeim. 2016. “Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance.” Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 17-023 (September).

Gassmann, Oliver, Karolin Frankenberger, Michaela Choudury, and Michaela Csik. 2020. The Business Model Navigator ePub eBook: The strategies behind the most successful companies. 2nd Edition ed. N.p.: FT Publishing International.

Grant, Adam. 2016. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. N.p.: Penguin Books.

Hagel III, John, and John S. Brown. 2005. The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends On Productive Friction And Dynamic Specialization. N.p.: Harvard Business Review Press.

Hagel III, John, John S. Brown, and Lang Davison. 2010. The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion. N.p.: Basic Books.

Hamel, Gary. 2007. The Future of Management. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Harvard Business Review Press.

Hamel, Gary. 2012. What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Jossey-Bass.

Hamel, Gary, and C. K. Prahalad. 1994. Competing for the Future. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Harvard Business Review Press.

Hartmans, Avery. 2017. “Quirky, the invention startup that burned through $200 million and went bankrupt, is back from the dead with a new business model.” Businessinsider.com.

Hastings, Reed, and Erin Meyer. 2020. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention. N.p.: Penguin Press.

Herrera, Ángel M., and Francisco Palao. 2021. Massive Transformative Purpose: The guide to provide sense to your projects and your life. N.p.: Editorial Bubok Publishing.

Hill, Dan. 2012. Dark matter and trojan horses. A strategic design vocabulary. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Strelka Press.

Hoffman, Reid, and Ben Casnocha. 2012. The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Currency.

Hoffman, Reid, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh. 2014. The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age. N.p.: Harvard Business Review Press.

Hoffman, Reid, and Chris Yeh. 2018. Blitzscaling: The Lightning-fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies. N.p.: HarperCollinsPublishers.

Horowitz, Ben. 2014. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers. N.p.: Harper Business.

Hufford, Lisa. 2016. Navigating the Talent Shift: How to Build On-Demand Teams that Drive Innovation, Control Costs, and Get Results. N.p.: Palgrave Macmillan US.

Ian. 2019. “How Tesla Used A $0 Marketing Strategy To Dominate A Market.” marketingstrategy.com. 

Ismail, Salim. n/a. “11 Secrets You Need To Know For Exponential Growth.” Growth Institute.

Jain, Naveen, and John Schroeter. 2018. Moonshots : Creating a World of Abundance. First Edition ed. N.p.: Moonshots Press.

Johansson, Frans. 2004. The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Harvard Business Review Press.

Kahneman, Daniel. 2013. Thinking, Fast and Slow. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Kanter, Rosabeth M. 1989. When Giants Learn to Dance. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Simon & Schuster.

Kaplan, Marcia. 2021. “Raising Funds Becomes Easier with New SEC Rules.” practicalecommerce.com.

Kapp, Karl M. 2013. The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook: Ideas into Practice. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Wiley.

Kawasaki, Guy, and Guy Kawasaki. 2012. APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Nononina Press.

Keeley, Larry, Helen Walters, Ryan Pikkel, and Brian Quinn. 2013. Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Wiley.

Kelly, Kevin. 2011. What Technology Wants. Illustrated edition ed. N.p.: Penguin Books.

Kelly, Kevin. 2016. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Viking.

Kelly, Kristin, and Nate Carter. 2019. “The Purpose Wheel by IDEO.” Design an Organization’s Purpose Statement With This Tool.

Kim, W. C., and Renee Mauborgne. 2005. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Harvard Business Review Press.

Kotler, Steven. 2021. The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer. N.p.: Harper Wave.

Kotler, Steven, and Jamie Wheal. 2017. Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work. N.p.: Dey Street Books.

Kurzweil, Ray. 2006. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. N.p.: Penguin Books.

Kurzweil, Ray. 2013. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. Illustrated edition ed. N.p.: Penguin Books.

Laloux, Frédéric. 2014. Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness. N.p.: Nelson Parker.

Lee, Kai-Fu. 2021. Ai Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order. N.p.: HarperCollins Publishers.

Lencioni, Patrick M. 2012. The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Jossey-Bass.

Lock, S. 2021. “Leading hotel companies worldwide 2020, by number of properties.” Statista.com. 

Lockhart, Mike. 2016. “Project 98 MQ-9 Predator RC Drone.” diydrones.com.

Malnight, Thomas W., Ivy Buche, and Charles Dhanaraj. 2019. “Put Purpose at the Core of Your Strategy It’s how successful companies redefine their businesses.” Harvard Business Review, (September - October).

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Malone, Michael. 2009. The Future Arrived Yesterday: The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What It Means for You. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Crown Business.

Malone, Michael S. 2007. Bill & Dave: How Hewlett and Packard Built the World’s Greatest Company. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Portfolio Hardcover.

Maurya, Ash. 2012. Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works. 2nd edition ed. N.p.: O’Reilly Media.

Mazzucato, Mariana. 2021. Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism. N.p.: Harper Business.

McChrystal, Stanley, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell. 2015. Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. N.p.: Portfolio.

McGonigal, Jane. 2011. Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World. Illustrated edition ed. N.p.: Penguin Books.

McGrath, Rita G. 2019. Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen. N.p.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Foreward: Clayton Christensen.

McGrath, Rita G., and Alex Gourlay. 2013. The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business. N.p.: Harvard Business Review Press.

McKinsey Quarterly. 2020. “Purpose: Shifting from why to how.” McKinsey & Company.

McNamee, Roger. 2004. The New Normal: Great Opportunities in a Time of Great Risk. N.p.: Portfolio Hardcover.

Mele, Nicco. 2013. The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath. N.p.: St. Martin’s Press.

Merchant, Nilofer. 2012. 11 Rules for Creating Value In #SocialEra. N.p.: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

Microsoft. 2016. “Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn.” Microsoft News Center. 

Moazed, Alex. n.d. “Platform Types: What they are and how to design platforms by type.” Applico. Accessed May 10, 2023. 

Moretti, Enrico. 2013. The New Geography of Jobs. Reprint edition ed. N.p.: Mariner Books.

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Muioi, Dave. 2020. “Healthy.io acquires fellow smartphone urinalysis startup Inui Health.” mobihealthnews.com.

Newport, Cal. 2016. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. N.p.: Grand Central Publishing.

Nott, Brandon. 2020. “’A Robot for Every Person’: The Next Wave of Personal Productivity.” UiPath.

O’Brien, M. E., and Eman Abdelhadi. 2022. An Oral History of the New York Commune: 2052-2072. N.p.: Common Notions.

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Osterwalder, Alexander, and Yves Pigneur. 2010. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (The Strategyzer series). 1st edition ed. N.p.: John Wiley and Sons.

Osterwalder, Alexander, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, and Alan Smith. 2014. Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (The Strategyzer Series). 1st edition ed. N.p.: Wiley.

Osterwalder, Alexander, Yves Pigneur, Alan Smith, and Frederic Etiemble. 2020. The Invincible Company: How to Constantly Reinvent Your Organization with Inspiration From the World’s Best Business Models. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Wiley.

Osterwalder, Alexander, Alan Smith, Yves Pigneur, and Gregory Bernarda. 2014. Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want. N.p.: Wiley.

Owens, Trevor, and Obie Fernandez. 2014. The Lean Enterprise: How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups. 1st edition ed. N.p.: Wiley.

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