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The CEOs of these other start-ups were no different from Ross, either. They had all read the same Ayn Rand books. These chief executives shared the same quotes on Facebook as he did: “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” The leaders of these companies all preached the same verbiage as the Dread Pirate Roberts to

When pressed, all of them would admit that in the race between the omnivorous web and their burgeoning technology, the web was winning

“If we take 6 percent, we have to improve a startup’s outcome by 6.4 percent for them to end up net ahead,” he said. “That’s a ridiculously low bar. So the IQ test is whether they grasp that.”5 When Graham finishes his last

What gets measured gets managed, I sometimes told customers, quoting a management guru whose writing I had never read.

Because information technology has undermined the capacity of centralized authority to project power and provide physical security for systems that operate at a large scale, the optimal size of almost every enterprise in the “natural economy” is falling. To respond to this technological change will entail a massive investment requirement (read oppo

The price per megabyte has declined at about 5 percent per quarter for more than twenty years.

A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.

economists have found that as an industry uses more information technology, the average size of firms within that industry shrinks.

Its uncannily effective Internet search product had changed the way people accessed information, changed the way they thought about information.