World 2.0 Startups

Making a better product is a good way for a startup to die. Incumbents are so powerful that in order to challenge them, startups usually need to offer something radically different rather than simply something superior to what already exists. The only way to win is to completely alter the paradigm in such a way that incumbents can’t reconcile it wi... See more

What Here Comes Everybody has me thinking about in 2022 is whether or not the dynamic era of organizational experimentation that flourished in the 2000s was way shorter than we predicted it to be, and if it is now effectively over. The apparently open-ended organizational possibilities of the 2000s web resolved in practice to a limited handful of q... See more