As an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and complexity scientist, I have been trying to determine what factors enable some startups to become billion dollar startups almost overnight. I have written more than 220 articles on startups and entrepreneurship over the last eight months. But if a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million words, so we decided to put my ideas into a video series.

First of all, I say almost overnight because building a billion dollar startup go...