Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
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Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
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Re: Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
#2The article seemed more apropos to the US automobile industry than SaaS.
Re: Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
#3> Even with evidence staring them in the face, carriage companies still did not pivot, assuming cars were a fad.
I like this quote. But this analogy doesn’t exactly work. Withe this hype cycle, CEOs are getting out and saying that AI will replace humans, not horses. Unlike previous artisans making carriages, the CEOs saying these things have very clear motivations to make you believe the hype.
Re: Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
#4nice article, but then end with the brain dead "jump on [current fad]".
If this was published a few months ago, it would be telling everyone to jump into web3.
Re: Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
#5nice article, but then end with the brain dead "jump on [current fad]". If this was published a few months ago, it would be telling everyone to jump into web3.
Has that ended well?
Re: Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
#6I like the historical part of this article, but the current problem is the reverse.
Everyone is jumping on the AI train and forgetting the fundamentals.
Re: Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
#7From the article:
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The first cars were:
- Loud and unreliable
- Expensive and hard to repair
- Starved for fuel in a world with no gas stations
- Unsuitable for the dirt roads of rural America
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Reminds me of Linux in the late 90s. Talking to Solaris, HPUX or NT4 advocates, many were sure Linux was not going to succeed because:
- It didn't support multiple processors
- There was nobody to pay for commercial support
- It didn't support the POSIX standard
Re: Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
#8> Even with evidence staring them in the face, carriage companies still did not pivot, assuming cars were a fad. I like this quote. But this analogy doesn’t exactly work. Withe this hype cycle, CEOs are getting out and saying that AI will replace humans, not horses. Unlike previous artisans making carriages, the CEOs saying these things have very clear motivations to make you believe the hype.
I'm not sure I agree much
Cynically, there's no difference from a CEO's perspective between a human employee and a horse
They are both expenses that the CEO would probably prefer to do without whenever possible. A line item on a balance sheet, nothing more
Re: Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
#9I like the historical part of this article, but the current problem is the reverse. Everyone is jumping on the AI train and forgetting the fundamentals.
AI will plausibly disrupt everything
Re: Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
#10nice article, but then end with the brain dead "jump on [current fad]". If this was published a few months ago, it would be telling everyone to jump into web3.
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