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Incremental Innovation is Just As Powerful as Disruption

Tom Tunguz

Like Thiel, I think Christensen undervalues efficiency innovations. Combining efficiency innovations can lead to enabling innovations that create new industries. The text message (SMS), a trivial innovation, is the banking mechanism over which 33% of Kenyan GDP flows. And efficiency innovations will attract another.

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Top 5 Things We Learned from BUILD in 2021

OpenView Labs

Company culture is a main driver of innovation. Merline Saintil has led teams at Intuit, Yahoo, PayPal, Adobe, Joyent, and Sun Microsystems. . She advises companies on a wide range of critical topics such as enterprise risks, technology trends, innovation, strategy, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. It’s not enough.

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