Some say if you want to get really rich you have to found a religion. Alternatively you create a charismatic brand for the masses. Currently you might also highjack a political party and make it a personal quasi-religious enterprise. Also, to become the richest man in the world you have to disrupt the usual market practices and create your own market and rules before everybody else understands it. Digital technology is key in this respect. Microsoft, Apple, then Facebook, Amazon, Google, (GAFAM in reverse order) have successfully exploited technological leadership. But there is more to it. The real challenge is to be successful in creating i.e. making your own market, where you are setting the rules yourself and each transaction on this market is paying a percentage into your pockets. It is amazing that this market making is not considered as creating a monopoly using technology long ago. This is changing but only slowly. Originally, the state or regulator set the rules for a market. The more the abuses of GAFAM in various respects become obvious to everybody, the more the call for rule-setting of politically responsible institutions can no longer be ignored. That is the point when either the state or non-profit organisations come in and can increase overall societal welfare. The strategy then is to have a state or quasi-state organisation regulate the conditions of the maket to overcome the information asymetry between buyers and sellers on these markets.
Accordingly we witness a multitude of local, sectoral, national or international maket makers. For profit it can be a true gold mine, as non-profit it still reaps sizable percentages on market activities of members, customers and service providers. One example of such a new non-profit market maker is the British organisation “modern markets for all” (MM4A). As it is run by a trained journalist, the media coverage is considerable. For all start-ups it should be part of their business plan to check whether they have a potential to become a (local, product or sectoral) market maker of some kind, rather than yet another contributor to the wealth of the GAFAM. Business school teaching could take this into account, particularly those training social entrepreneurs. 
Schlusssatz im Zeitartikel: ” Es ist nicht so schlimm mit den sechzig Jahren, … Sechzig ist heute das neue Fünfzig.” Es ist das knackige Alter. Wir können es eben jetzt so richtig knall/cken lassen. Machen wir es wie die Frauenbewegung, die eben auch nach dem 8-ten März als Grafitti sprüht. 
