What’s “the largest business opportunity the world has ever seen?” According to David Nordfors of i4J, that’s the $140T (yes, Trillion) innovation for jobs market: 5B people around the world are of working age, 3B want a job with steady pay, yet only 1.3B have one – and of those, only 13% (around 200M people) are fully engaged at their job. So how can society engage and scale to the talents of 3 to 5 billion people? How to disrupt mobile: As the mobile ecosystem supplants the PC ecosystem, innovation and investment is centered around mobile – but what happens once mobile reaches everyone on earth? Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz makes a case for AI: “Just as the web didn’t replace Windows, but made it a commodity,” he writes, “AI might shift our attention away from mobile.” Going to SXSW? Then make sure to stop by and check out Matt Kaufman, Head of Operations at CrunchBase, speak about tracking innovation in constantly evolving startup ecosystems. The event, hosted by innovation marketplace Kite, kicks off on Saturday, March 12 at 9:30am. Introducing new ways to access CrunchBase Data: Uncover new opportunities, discover industry trends, and build powerful apps using the Daily Excel Export or API. | 