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The Innovator's Dilemma

When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

Book • 2021

Clayton M. Christensen

In this influential business book, Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can lose market leadership when they fail to adapt to disruptive innovations.

Christensen explains why companies often miss new waves of innovation and provides a set of rules for capitalizing on disruptive technologies.

The book uses examples from various industries, including the disk drive, mechanical excavator, steel, and computer industries, to illustrate trends that lead to success or failure in the face of disruptive technologies.

Mentioned by

David Friedberg

Marc Andreessen

Brian Armstrong

Steven Sinofsky

Hamilton Helmer

Arianna Huffington

Steven Bartlett

Mentioned in 180 episodes

Mentioned by

David Senra

as a book that influenced Jensen Huang's thinking on avoiding the innovator's dilemma.

#376 Jensen Huang: Founder of Nvidia

Mentioned by

David Senra

as one of Jensen Huang's favorite books.

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Mentioned by

David Friedberg

in the context of discussing disruptive innovation in the tech industry.

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Mentioned by

Marc Andreessen

as a business textbook example of disruption in the context of Google and OpenAI.

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Mentioned by

Bill Gurley

in the context of big companies being slow to adapt to change.

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Mentioned by

Richard Rumelt

as a solid book on innovation.

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Mentioned by

Chris Dixon

as a canonical case study in the PC industry about hard drive makers.

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Mentioned by

Brian Armstrong

in the context of innovator's dilemma, stating that organizations making tons of money off the traditional system have difficulty embracing crypto.

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Mentioned by

Steven Sinofsky

, who notes that although nobody has read it, everyone references it.

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Recommended by

Aaron Levie

as the number one business book of all time.

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Mentioned by

Hamilton Helmer

in the context of disruptive technologies and their correlation with long-term profitability.

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Mentioned by

David Senra

in relation to Steve Jobs's insights on the transition from personal computers to cloud computing.

Recommended by

Jake Saper

when discussing the concept of 'job to be done'.

Generative AI Moats in B2B with Emergence Capital’s Jake Saper

Mentioned by

Amjad Masad

as a foundation for the terminology of sustaining versus disruptive technologies.

Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?

Recommended by

Noah Weiss

as one of the best books on product strategy.

The 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google)

Mentioned by

Arianna Huffington

as a favorite book.

Arianna Huffington: I Was Lying In A Little Pool Of Blood! The Huffington Post, A $1 Billion 'Flop'!

Mentioned by

Steven Bartlett

as a book that explains why people don't pursue disruptive innovation.

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Mentioned by

Andrew Homan

as a book about the innovator's dilemma.

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Mentioned by

Azeem Azhar

as a book a generation of managers grew up in the shadow of.

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Mentioned by

David Senra

as a book Jeff Bezos read and discussed with senior executives.

#180 Jeff Bezos (Invention of a Global Empire)

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