This document provides an overview of Nick van Breda and his career path from gaming addict to social entrepreneur. It outlines his timeline from 2002-2012 when he spent 400 days gaming, to quitting gaming in 2013 and going on to win research papers and present to professors. His goals are outlined as training 1 million people by age 30 to turn ideas into jobs and prepare a society of changemakers. Various tips and strategies are provided around topics like scaling startups, crowdfunding, and leadership. Global issues are listed and the reader is prompted to set goals and identify needed resources. Exponential vs linear growth and types of organizations are contrasted.

1. @nickvbreda – Nickvanbreda.com | Trendwatcher & Hackathon
Organizer | Innovation Broker Jack Young Network Group |
Co-organizer Campus Party The Netherlands

3. Short term | Of short time Long Term | Of longer timePositiveenergyNegativeEnergy
YOU
Relation School
Work
Step parents
Minorstudy friends
Passion
CuriositySports
Debt
Stolen bike
Friend moved far away
Pet died

4. WHO AM I? AND WHY AM I
HERE?

5. TIMELINE
 2002-2012
 400 days in gameplay

6. FROM GAME-ADDICT TOWARDS SOCIAL
ENTREPRENEUR
2013-2016

8. HEARING THIS WAS FOR ME THE END & THE
BEGINNING...
1 January 2013 – Quit gaming
30 April 2013 – winning research paper
1 June 2013 – Best freshman research paper awarded with a 9,6
15 June 2013 – Presenting paper to 150 professors in Lisbon

10.  Why? Many people die before they have lived their passions. I aim to reduce the 70%
of people that have a job that drains their energy and doesn’t drive any passions or
ambitions they have.
 How? By organizing impactful events like hackathons & creating self-organized
learning platforms. I offer people with dreams a place where they can teach
themselves the 21st century skills, enable them to create their own jobs.
 What? Before I become 30 years old I will train 1 million people in how to turn their
ideas, curiosity and passion into a job.
 Vision: to prepare and lead a society of changemakers that are able to create new
jobs, tackle world problems and find purpose in their life & work.

12.  When you have no expertise surround yourself with those who have the most expertise,
don’t read their books but connect with them and offer them a hand
 How to turn hackathon ideas into businesses or a job
 How to generate leads from old-fashioned exhibitions & startup events
 What the recipes are for scaling and how talented people get brainwashed by corporate
culture and good salaries
 Which investors are right for your startup and which are not
 How to use crowdfunding & crowdspeaking in combination with gamification to get a
succesful funding
 Why social enterprises take 2x longer to scale and generate profits than normal
businesses
 How a great leader with a vision can setup a million dollar business in a very short time

13. Aid (6)
Arms Control (7)
Biodiversity (9)
Causes of Poverty (14)
Climate Change and Global
Warming (32)
Corporations (13)
Environmental Issues (50)
Fair Trade (5)
Food and Agriculture Issues (26)
Food Dumping [Aid] Maintains
Poverty (3)
Free Trade and Globalization (14)
G8: Too Much Power? (4)
Genetically Engineered Food (10)
Geopolitics (45)
Health Issues (15)
Human Population (7)
Human Rights Issues (11)
International Criminal Court (6)
Refugee Crisis (3)
Natural Disasters (6)
Nuclear Weapons (5)
Sustainable Development (13)
Third World Debt Undermines
Development (11)
Trade, Economy, & Related
Issues (67)http://www.globalissues.org/issue

14.  What if… you were able to solve a problem 1 billion people are facing every day?
 What if… you put 100% of your energy in your curiousity for the next 5 years?
 What if… you had a basic income and never had to worry about money anymore?
 What if… your environment is extremely enthusiastic about your work and everyone wants
to collaborate with you?
WRITE DOWN A GOAL FOR THE NEXT 5 YEARS.
WRITE DOWN WHICH RESOURCES ARE NEEDED TO REACH THAT GOAL.
WHAT IS THE GOAL:
A PERSONAL GOAL | AN ORGANIZATIONAL/GROUP GOAL | A SYSTEM GOAL |

15. Exponential
Lineair
Freelancer

16. Buurtzorg,
Permanent Beta,
Referendum
Government,
Banks,
Big corporates
95% of all businesses
before 2000

17. Risk taker - Risk avoider - Risk manager

20. http://top100.exponentialorgs.com/

23.  Make sure SME’s and corporates adapt fast enough to technology, culture and system
disruption
 Help freelancers and startups with scaling, so they create new jobs
 Make Creativity, critical thinking, curiousity and problems solving the centre of
trainings and education
 Allow people to FAIL (First attempt in learning)
 Transform your corporate into a social responsible business
 Get a MTP and make sure people know about it and are able to join you

25.  Change from efficiency organization that is driven by short term goals towards a learning
organization with one big bold vision that people want to pursue. Tesla
 Create a startup with only one goal: Eating its mothers organization. Eneco
 Give employees the autority over their own work, with complete transparancy about
income and output streams like Zappos does.
 Source startups that are about to disrupt your core products and partner up with them and
implement their solutions. Jack Young Network Group
 Offer employees 20% of their working day free time to work on their own ideas and
projects. Google
 Make hackathons part of the organization both internal and external hackathons. Github,
ING & Capgemini
 Create your own school/living lab where future thinkers can experiment full-time with latest
technology, best mentors, new methodologies and tools & unlimited resources.
Singularity University & X-Prize