Andy McAfee discusses the qualities of geeky companies that investors should pay attention to, including valuing science, ownership, speed, and openness. He also mentions the use of machine learning to assess a company's culture and highlights the agility, innovation, and execution ability of West Coast companies.
The rules of business are changing. And those rules are being written by some … unlikely characters.
Andrew McAfee is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of a number of books, including The Geek Way. Mary Long caught up with McAfee to discuss how culture shapes companies – and brings about impressive returns along the way. They discuss:
- The power of “geekiness”
- How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around
- And why Amazon *wants* to see billion-dollar failures.
Tickers discussed: AMZN, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, META
Host: Mary Long
Guest: Andrew McAfee
Producer: Ricky Mulvey
Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl
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