Adam Lashinsky Quotes

Cannibalization is by far the most difficult feat any established, successful company can pull off.

Adam Lashinsky

• Company
• Feat
• Cannibalization

The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.

Adam Lashinsky

• Metaphor
• Cloud
• Industries

Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money.

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• Money
• Facebook
• Printing

I've written repeatedly about the quest by corporations everywhere to transform themselves digitally.

Adam Lashinsky

• Transform
• Corporations
• Digitally

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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• Creativity
• Innovation
• Holy Grail

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 Ive ever seen.

Adam Lashinsky

• Money
• Enemies
• Uber

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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• Home
• Price
• Amazon

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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• Man
• Opportunity
• Failure

Apple is so secretive internally, they keep secrets from each other.

Adam Lashinsky

• Secrets
• Apple
• Each Other

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.

Adam Lashinsky

• Fear
• Control
• Americans