# Mission I started Xponential Tech, Inc. because I was worried about the fututre. I am a father of three and it is my job, my sworn duty, to protect my family. The world is changing impossibly fast and I need to do something about it. Xponential Finance is about taking the insights from Xponential Tech and using it to help people understand what is happening and thrive in the exponentially changing world. I have been studying the history of technology for over 40 years. Xponential Finance is an attempt to use what I learned as a worker in technology driven industries, a student of technology, an investor, and as a business owner to educate and empower people to navigate, and eventually thrive, in these challenging times. I created this website to make a record of what I have learned and the sources from which I got my information. I have always been an intensely curious person. I got interested in technology when I started reading about MIT's Media Lab in the 1980s. Through my independent research I uncovered a problem that I consider to be one of the most fundamental, if not the most fundamental, problem of our time. **The world is changing faster than people are able to adapt.** Technology is advancing at an exponential pace. People think linearly. There are a series of technological revolutions happening at present that will drastically increase human productivity, allow us to do more with fewer resources and achieve previously impossible tasks. Both wonderful and terrible things can come from this. It is our job to use technology where it helps to lift humanity out of poverty and toward prosperity but do so without letting powerful technologies get into the hands of those who use it to nefarious ends. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://xponentialfinance.gitbook.io/xponential-finance/mission.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.