The Timing of Great Ideas Is Not Unimportant

Clayton: The dominant player in one generation of technology was never the dominant player in the second. He says companies get so locked into resource allocation on the technology that is dominant for their company and from which the cas flows, they can't innovate next time. "I think that the timing was extraordinary, because it was almost as if while clayton studied this in hardware, the sophware revolution was just ready to take over the entire world," he adds.