Disruptive Technologies: Opportunity or Kiss of Death? Bob Robbins - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Disruptive Technologies:

Opportunity or Kiss of Death?

Bob Robbins Principal, Robbins Farley, LLC Bob.robbins@robbinsfarley.com www.robbinsfarley.com

Opportunity

• Invest in Companies Benefiting from

Disruption

• Modify your Business Plan to Incorporate

New Technology to Your Advantage

• Learn from History

History of Disruption

Transportation Revolution

• Electric Cars
• Ride Sharing
• Autonomous Driving
• Drones
• Hyper Loop

Energy Revolution

• Transferring energy generation from individual users to centralized and

distributed energy generation

• Massive distribution and control changes to the electric grid
• Increased fracking leading to lower natural gas costs worldwide
• Replacing Fossil fuels with Solar and Wind and batteries
• Impact of Hyperloop on Aircraft Fuel requirements

E-Commerce Revolution

• The Amazon Effect
• Elimination of Distributors
• 3-D Printing
• Greater Need for Product Service

Locally

Social Media Revolution

• Top Down Being Replaced by Bottom Up:
• News-Everybody is a potential news reporter and

photographer

• Advertising-Preference Focused Advertising
• Artificial Intelligence Marketing
• Changing the Political Climate
• Global Reach
• Timely Impact of Messages
• Instant feedback of sales campaign effectiveness

Cloud Computing Revolution

• Virtual Offices
• Less Capital Expenditure
• Increased Collaboration
• Improved Cyber Security
• Document Control
• Ransomware protection
• Secure Backup

Medical Revolution

• Longevity
• Creating Artificial Organs
• New genome editing methods
• Growth of Nutrugenomics
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Opportunity or Kiss of Death?

• What are you doing to avoid the

Kiss of Death?

• What are you doing to take

advantage of the opportunity?

ANY FINAL QUESTIONS?

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Bob Robbins Principal, Robbins Farley, LLC Bob.Robbins@RobbinsFarley.com www.robbinsfarley.com

Disclaimers

• Robbins Farley LLC does currently hold positions in some of the companies discussed in this

presentation, and has held these positions for client portfolios in the past.

• This material is intended to be educational in nature, and not as a recommendation of any particular

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