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History shows that companies nearly always choose to protect their established revenue streams.* If the kind of revolution that Brin envisions is to unfold, it may have to arise outside the automotive industry. And, of course, Brin may be in exactly the right place to make that happen.
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
In 2001, my co-workers at PayPal and I would often get lunch on Castro Street in Mountain View. We had our pick of restaurants, starting with obvious categories like Indian, sushi, and burgers. There were more options once we settled on a type: North Indian or South Indian, cheaper or fancier, and so on. In contrast to the competitive local restaur
... See morePeter Thiel • Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Then there was the man who gave his name to the era, Ronald Reagan, crusader against big government, defender of deregulated markets, standard-bearer of what he called “the decade of the entrepreneur.” For the Great Communicator, no place or industry better exemplified American free enterprise at work than Silicon Valley, and he was particularly en
... See moreMargaret O'Mara • The Code
“Again and again in business history, an unknown company has come from nowhere and in a few short years overtaken the established leaders without apparently even breathing hard. The explanation always given is superior strategy, superior technology, superior marketing, or lean manufacturing. But in every single case, the newcomer also enjoys a trem
... See moreTariffs, DOGE & Fixing America: Peter Thiel's Skeptic Solutions
youtube.comThe famed Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter is usually associated with this term, but the basic idea goes back all the way to the works of Karl Marx. The notion (which has experienced a recent resurgence via Clayton Christensen's writings on disruptive innovation) is that in order to create something, you have to destroy something else in the pr
... See moreFrank Slootman • TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story
he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.