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The Innovator's Dilemma

by Clayton M. Christensen

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Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz

Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz

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Interestingly this is the only business book that Steve Jobs liked.
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos

Founder of Amazon

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The Innovator's Dilemma is one of the most influential business books in the world.
you probably bought some of his book recommendations, like 'The Innovator’s Dilemma' by Clayton M. Christensen
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs

Co-founder of Apple Inc.

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Explore how works such as 'The Innovator’s Dilemma' influenced Apple’s strategic decisions.
It’s imporant that we make this transformation, because of what Clayton Christensen calls 'the innovator’s dilemma,' where people who invent something are usually the last ones to see past it, and we certainly don’t want to be left behind.
Drew Houston
Drew Houston

Co-founder and CEO of Dropbox

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About how businesses get disrupted, and a lot of those themes are why startups can succeed and thrive even when there are big competitors who you would think would just wipe ’em out.
Max Levchin
Max Levchin

Co-founder of PayPal and CEO of Affirm

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Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang

CEO of NVIDIA

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1. The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings

Co-founder of Netflix

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Netflix itself is a textbook example of Christensen’s theory: disrupting the video rental market, then the entertainment industry.
Naval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant

Co-founder of AngelList

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Andrew Chen
Andrew Chen

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

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Andrew Grove
Andrew Grove

Former CEO of Intel

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innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right—yet still lose market leadership.
Ev Williams
Ev Williams

Co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Medium

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Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell

Author of The Tipping Point and Outliers

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Travis Kalanick
Travis Kalanick

Co-founder of Uber

Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer

CEO of Yahoo and Google Executive

Chris Dixon
Chris Dixon

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

John Doerr
John Doerr

Partner at Kleiner Perkins

Meg Whitman
Meg Whitman

Former CEO of eBay and HP

Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman

Co-founder of LinkedIn and Investor

Larry Page
Larry Page

Co-founder of Google

Tim Cook
Tim Cook

CEO of Apple

Ginni Rometty
Ginni Rometty

Former CEO of IBM

Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen

Co-founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz

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