How Tech Disruptors ‘Think Different’
Powerhouse companies are changing our lives, sometimes with consequences.
Publicado em 02 de Março de 2023
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter IsaacsonPersonal computers and the internet completely revolutionized just about everything we do from how we communicate to how we shop. Isaacson explores the balance of individual creativity and collaboration it took for numerous people like Steve Jobs to create the most disruptive technologies of our time.
How I Built This with Guy Raz
619 episódios do podcast
How I Built This with Guy Raz
619 episódios do podcastFeaturing in-depth conversations with hundreds of highly successful entrepreneurs, Raz’s podcast is like a master class in how to launch an innovative business. Top founders share how they created powerhouse disruptors like Clubhouse, Robinhood, Stripe, Patreon, and others.
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Eric Berger2021 launched the billionaire space race as Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos made history traveling to the edge of space within days of each other. But don’t forget about Elon Musk. While Musk hasn’t personally reached space (yet), his company’s rockets certainly have. “Liftoff” takes readers on SpaceX’s dramatic journey from its shaky, outlandish origins to its emergence as a leader of the new tech generation’s quest to disrupt space transportation.
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
Sarah Frier“No Filter” won the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award in 2020. This is the story of how Instagram started in 2010 and in a mere 10 years became a worldwide phenomenon with over one billion users. Tech journalist Frier takes you behind the lens with those who turned the social media platform into a tool that’s altered all our lives, including interviews with co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
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Think Like a Disruptor
Henry Ford. Steve Jobs. Elon Musk. Disruptive entrepreneurs may upend industries in different ways, but they have one thing in common: They don’t think like the people they disrupt. They look at the world differently—and, in my experience, more emoti
Top disruptors “think different,” and in this Entrepreneur article a strategist shares three keys to the disruptor’s mindset that unlock entrepreneurs’ abilities to innovate and improve their industries.
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
Safi BahcallRight now might be the perfect time to take a big swing on a crazy business idea. Throughout history, many inventions we currently take for granted were considered outlandish, the titular “loonshots.” How many loonshots have never come to pass because of such resistance? In this critically acclaimed book, Bahcall shows how to nurture unconventional ideas to change the world.
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Jill LeporeThis acclaimed look at a top disruptor of the past has timely implications for how tech companies track users’ data now. Lepore dives deep into the little-known history of the Simulmatics Corporation, a precursor to today’s technological surveillance state. Lepore delivers “a story that hinges on the discovery, in the late 1950s, that computers and languages such as FORTRAN, based on an endless series of ‘IF/THEN’ statements, ‘an infinity of outcomes,’ could be used to gauge and influence voter preferences. The Simulmatics Corporation melded the worlds of ‘Mad Men’ advertising and high-tech geekery of the UNIVAC set,” according to Kirkus Reviews.
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Clayton ChristensenAs the creator of the “disruptive innovation” theory and a professor at Harvard Business School, Christensen knows a thing or two about how to successfully disrupt. Find out how to fan the flames of change in this follow-up to the explosive “The Innovator’s Dilemma.”
Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work
Sarah KesslerThe gig economy has grown by leaps and bounds during the pandemic, but has this update to the traditional freelancer model lived up to its utopian hype? Kessler follows everyone from Uber and delivery drivers to computer programmers for hire in her even-handed investigation into how full-time part-timers sent shockwaves through the entire economy.
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
Daniel SusskindWe’ve all read the science fiction books about machines becoming smarter than us and stealing our jobs. While predictions of automatons taking over the world have been overblown in the past, Daniel Susskind shows how the technological advancements of more recent years have a high potential of making work as we know it obsolete. Rather than spreading doom and gloom, Susskind shows how this future could lead to desirable outcomes.
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Martin FordHow much disruption is too much? Though robots still have a ways to go before they can take over the world, they’re quickly taking away plenty of people’s jobs. Ford argues our whole economic structure needs to be overhauled before it reaches dystopian conditions.
Without a Doubt: How to Go from Underrated to Unbeatable
Surbhi SarnaSarna’s life and career are proof that you don’t have to have an early advantage to be a disruptor. Despite years of being disregarded — or perhaps because of it — she went on to develop a life-saving medical device for women. Sarna is now a successful venture capitalist and a Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur. “Without a Doubt” overflows with humor, vulnerability, and empathy as the author inspires readers to chase their passions no matter the odds.