Book Description for America Is An Idea:
From a co-founder of empowr.com comes this “Why?” story behind the massive social platform, empowr, that’s been in the making for fifteen years.
Learn exactly what drove the participants (founders, advisors, success coaches and 1,000 employees plus 100,000 alpha test users) in their gigantic moonshot project.
After meticulously discussing the “Why?” the author then delves into how empowr has been designed to exploit the exponential characteristics of the web – via its tightly-integrated democratic, economic and educational platform – to deliver opportunity to people everywhere.
The book reads like a manifesto and a manual. One can’t help but come away with newfound or elevated inspiration to dream big, take on their own moonshot project and make a massive difference on the planet.
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REVIEW: I was attracted to this title because of the big ideas supposed on the front of the book. The American Dream is for EVERYONE? I had to ask myself did I still believe this. I love America. I am an entrepreneur. There is no better place on earth to be an entrepreneur than America. No one who starts their own company does so to fail. We all believe in the dream. But for Everyone?In the World?
Because the front the of the book made me think and argue with myself I knew I had to read it. I expected it to be a rose colored glasses sort of treatise on how you too can be a millionaire. What I found instead not only shocked me, but made me think even harder about the challenges we face politically and economically. The more I read the more I discovered an incredibly well thought out and well supported outline of what challenges we faced in the past, how we are in line to face them again, and the new challenges that are coming. Mr Pousti uses cogent arguments and historical data to show how the World was saved by democracy and then how democracy is in peril. And why Democracy and capitalism being in peril could and most likely will lead to violent revolution. He shows how poverty and marginalization of many groups made people in the past follow radical evil like Nazism and Stalinism, and is now lending itself to terrorism with groups like the Taliban.
Even better than his really drilling down to the actual problems we face and how they came about, is the fact that he has designed a system to fix these problems. A way to fix our failing education system, government system, and economic system. He and his team have spent 15 years developing a method to harness your skills at social media and make them pay. Yes, make them pay. Without the high barriers to entry that membership fees inevitably create.
This method, plan, idea, what ever you call it, is for everyone everywhere. But saving everyone we ultimately save ourselves and the idea of America.
Author’s Bio:
Mike Pousti is the co-founder of empowr, a partnership between academia and tech entrepreneurs that’s attempting to deliver a democratized social media experience where the company is governed by its citizens.
Mike began his entrepreneurial journey when he founded his first start-up during his senior year as a computer engineering student at UC San Diego (UCSD). 
Employing 200 people and generating millions of dollars in profits before the age of 22, his company, Higher Educational Resources Corporation, developed the first commercially successful search engine on the Internet, known as the Arpanet.
His next start-up, Productivity Solutions Corporation, was acquired when he was 24 and two years later, Mike started CollegeClub.com, the world’s leading website for the 18-23 year old demographic.
After the dot-com crash in 2000, CollegeClub.com was acquired, and less than a week later, Mike started Phase 1 of empowr. empowr’s highly patented suite of technologies generated over $150M U.S. and today, empowr’s proprietary technologies are used by all major social platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google Plus and Tumblr.
While Mike remains an integral part in the daily operations of empowr, he recently relinquished his CEO position and handed over control of the company to empowr’s citizens, who formally elected their leader (and new President of empowr) via a web-based election.
Connect with the author: Website
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