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Crowd-powered approach fuels large global network
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Catalyzing High Impact
Innovation to Transform
Global Transportation "
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LYNDA M. APPLEGATE
TERRI L. GRIFFITH
ANN MAJCHRZAK
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies: Building
Breakthrough Innovations in Crowd-Powered
Ecosystems
I believe that entrepreneurs can change the world. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are trying to change the world
but they have billions of dollars. What if you have a passion to change the world but don't have access to that
kind of personal wealth? We believe that we are not only transforming the nature of transportation, we are also
defining the future of work in the 21st century.
Dirk Ahlborn, co-founder and CEO of Hyperloop Transpor
of Jumpstarter, Inc.-a crowdsourcing incubator and platform
a long day of meetings ahead of him. He had boarded a fligl
from Los Angeles International Airport on the first Southwe
April 2017 and would be heading back to Los Angeles on the
irony of launching a new venture that, he believed, would tr
that this morning had taken him hours--counting security and
future, would only take 30 minutes was not lost on him. His
barriers that limit where we go and how we get there. Transp
sustainable - economically, environmentally, and politically.
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MAY 8, 2017
To change the world's view of transportation, Ahlborn,
HTT. But Ahlborn and Gresta wanted to do more: they wante
building new companies. From its launch in 2013, HTT was in
by crowdsourcing the design and early financing of the new
HTT would build, but also in its development and launch. "V
of passionate engineers, designers, programmers, lawyers,
transportation agencies, research and development labs, uni
with ideas from around the world," Ahlborn explained.² In Ja
to begin construction of a Hyperloop in the Quay Valley, Calif
between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Between March 2016
LYNDA M. APPLEGATE
TERRI L. GRIFFITH
ANN MAJCHRZAK
ANKITA PANDA
HARVARD | BUSINESS
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REV: NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies:
Catalyzing High Impact Innovation to Transform
Global Transportation
In July 2020, Dirk Ahlborn, founder and chairman of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
(HyperloopTT) sat in his home office in Santa Monica, California. Originally, he was supposed to be in
Brazil, supporting the opening of the company's first innovation center. The innovation center-called
XO Square-would house the company's HyperloopTT logistics research division, a fabrication lab.View entire presentation