Adam Lashinsky Quotes:- Adam Lashinsky is a reporter, author, and business executive. He is known for his coverage of the tech industry and his inside knowledge of Silicon Valley.
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“Silicon Valley tends to fall in love with the new new thing.”
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“Global affairs consultant Ian Bremmer, the founder of the Eurasia Group, has started a newsletter called ‘Signal,’ aimed at millennials. For years, Bremmer has written a maddeningly all-lowercase yet fascinating weekly newsletter on geopolitics.”
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“Bernard Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, sees technology as an augmentation to current healing tools – but not a replacement for human kindness, an integral part of healthcare.”
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“ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and sell-side analysts who embarrassed themselves by pumping it up.”
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“Salesforce employees are so immersed in the fervor over their offerings and their unique workplace that they are nearly incredulous to learn that few people beyond the legions of customers using Salesforce’s product have the faintest idea what the company does.”
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“As a new Googler, Porat spent some time learning the words that describe the Googley people who work in those buildings.”
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“Should Ford succeed in equipping all its cars with information that gets communicated back to its servers, it will become a ‘big data’ company, a beyond-vehicles opportunity that is as promising as it is murky.”
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“Sony’s Walkman far predated the iPod. Nokia ruled smartphones before Apple.”
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“Innovation has its limits, of course, and Salesforce has proved adept at supplementing its growth with acquisitions, a tool long available to older rivals like Oracle and SAP.”
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“Amazon led with online bookselling, web services, and drones.”
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“Tesla has humiliated established carmakers with its brilliant vision. But Detroit, Turin, Stuttgart, and so on have understood scale as well as a capital allocation for decades. Such gargantuan tasks could yet humiliate Tesla.”
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“Amazon does online application hosting. So does Alibaba.”
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“No matter your interpretation of Apple’s success with its Watch, it has become a leader – and it wasn’t first to market.”
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“The reliable way great conglomerates grew over time was by adding new products and buying new companies. IBM moved from mainframe to PCs.”
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“Porat is among a handful of top people who work for both Alphabet and Google. As such, there’s a regular cadence to her week.”
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“A ‘free and open’ Internet has been an article of faith in and around Mountain View, Menlo Park, and its environs for two decades.”
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“AIM was so quaint, it organized users around ‘buddy lists.’ In a time before smartphones, AIM was powerful and intoxicating, a way for a generation that once had called people on the phone to communicate in quick bursts from their computers.”
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“Apple is so secretive internally, they keep secrets from each other.”
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“If one’s man’s trash is another man’s treasure, then one industry’s potential failure is another’s opportunity.”
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“I confess that, like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn’t been heard from in eons, I didn’t know AIM, as we all called it, still existed at all.”
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“One of the world’s most successful and yet mysterious companies in the world, Samsung Electronics, has been operating without its leader for months and likely will continue to do so for some time to come.”
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“Broadcom is the descendant of a nearly 60-year-old unit of the original Hewlett-Packard. Semiconductor companies are like enterprise software companies: they don’t die easily.”
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“Amazon has a good record with customers, who are confident the retailer will give them the lowest price. Entering their home will be another thing altogether.”
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“Groceries, TV shows, and shoes are a few categories Amazon has been willing to hang onto for years.”
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“Americans fear losing control if they’re forced to ride in autonomous vehicles. These same Americans fly in airplanes every day that largely are flown by computers and impressively efficient ones at that.”
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“Before its immature ways caught up with it, Uber got bigger and went further than Webvan ever did. But it bleeds money, courts controversy, and makes enemies like no company I’ve ever seen.”
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“The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.”
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“Salesforce acquires companies – it has snapped up 55 since 2006 – that are either more innovative or that have pioneered market segments that Salesforce hasn’t yet cracked.”
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“Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money.”
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“As the finish line for 2017 begins to come into focus, I’m beginning to wonder what an Uber turnaround would look like.”
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“Cannibalization is by far the most difficult feat any established, successful company can pull off.”
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“Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft’s growth – if not its profit engine – stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too.”
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“Chinese companies, in their well-capitalized, rapidly growing, and surprisingly lightly regulated markets, have become global innovation leaders.”
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“Alphabet would be a holding company to house its wackier or noncore efforts – like its Verily life sciences, Waymo self-driving cars, and Loon Internet balloon projects – while Google’s advertising-oriented business would stand apart and continue to drive the company’s finances.”
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“Uber has a lot of money, and they’ve hired a lot of good people, and they have the capacity to professionalize.”
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“Neither success nor by any means a failure, Roku will nevertheless ask public investors for money because they, too, have a right to dream that magic will become reality one day.”
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“Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It’s the holy grail of business, but achieving it – even merely explaining it – is lightning-in-a-bottle difficult.”
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“The iPod was once so important to Apple that the estimable journalist Steven Levy wrote an entire book about it. And then, poof! The iPod was nearly gone.”
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“Chip maker Nvidia is the new old thing, an overnight success story years in the making that is having its moment and then some.”
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“Roku collects money two ways: by selling hardware, which it calls ‘players’; and by selling advertising and taking a cut of revenues from the video publishers on its platform.”
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“The creation of the ‘Goldie Scholars’ program is an acknowledgment that knowledge isn’t enough.”
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“I’ve written repeatedly about the quest by corporations everywhere to transform themselves digitally.”
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“ICG wasn’t an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies.”
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“With innovative companies and products like Tencent’s WeChat messaging service and novel approaches to artificial intelligence and various business models, China rapidly is becoming an innovator in its own right.”
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