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Already in the United States alone, Alzheimer's care costs 200 billion
dollars
every year.
One out of every five Medicare
dollars
get spent on Alzheimer's.
When I was raising investment for my startup, a venture capitalist said to me, "Ashwini, I think you're going to raise a few million
dollars.
Who would be unhappy with putting four or five million
dollars
into a company and having it sell for 50 to 70 million?
Venture capital was designed to pour large sums of money into a small number of companies that can sell for over a billion
dollars.
Not to mention the millions and billions of
dollars
of funding it takes to go through that process.
It cost, at that time that these kits were found, up to 1,500
dollars
per kit to have it tested.
In 2011, the last time the Jordan 3 Black Cement was released, at a retail of 160 dollars, it sold out globally in minutes.
Yeah, 8,000
dollars.
In a market where in the past 12 months, there have been over nine million pairs of shoes resold in the United States alone, at a value of 1.2 billion
dollars.
Here he's made over 600
dollars
on one pair.
That means that sneakerheads made 380 million
dollars
selling Nikes last year.
And in the 12 months ending in June, Skechers's net income was 209 million
dollars.
Shoes that sell for 8,000
dollars
do so because they're very rare.
They sell millions of shoes to millions of people for 60
dollars.
For example, during Prop 8, my church raised over 22 million
dollars
to fight same-sex marriage in California.
If you received a mole of pennies on the day you were born and spent a million
dollars
a second until the day you died at the age of 100, you would still have more than 99.99% of your money in the bank.
Because you're up against companies that have hundreds of millions of
dollars
at stake, essentially.
So for all of these reasons, all of these ecosystem services, economists estimate the value of the world's coral reefs in the hundreds of billions of
dollars
per year.
So never mind that they're worth hundreds of billions of
dollars.
In the past, the SARS epidemic actually cost the world about 40 billion
dollars.
And in the future, a big disease outbreak could actually cost the world in excess of three trillion
dollars.
So before, it used to be that you had to take an airplane out of service for one to two months, spend tens of thousands of man hours and several million
dollars
to try to change something.
The subsequent international media forced the local government to pledge 10 million
dollars
in coastal cleanups.
Well, actually, it is booming exactly the same amount as ever, banking an infinite number of
dollars
a night.
In the 20th century, we literally spent trillions of
dollars
building infrastructure to get water to our cities.
A few
dollars?
A hundred
dollars?
How about a million
dollars?
Now, these institutions are like tankers, and working inside of them, I've come to appreciate what large wakes they can leave, and I've become convinced that the institution of the global capital markets, the nearly 290 trillion
dollars
of stocks and bonds in the world, that that may be one of our most powerful forces for positive social change at our disposal, if we ask it to be.
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