Book
The Innovator's Dilemma
A business classic by Clayton Christensen on why successful companies often fail to adapt to disruptive innovation. Referenced in 5 episodes of Lenny’s Podcast.
The Innovator's Dilemma
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Author
Clayton Christensen
Episodes5
- Sanchan SaxenaSanchan Saxena (VP of Product at Coinbase) on the inside story of how Airbnb made it through Covid; what he’s learned from Brian Chesky, Brian Armstrong, and Kevin Systrom; much more
- Noah WeissThe 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack’s approach to product
- Eric RiesReflections on a movement
- Shweta ShrivastavaProduct lessons from Waymo
- Jeetu PatelAI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco President on the AI revolution
Transcript mentions
The Bible in tech in my mind is Innovator's Dilemma and Innovator Solutions from Clayton Christensen.
'm actually seeing this a lot right now. I'm an investor in a bunch of startups, and so many of them are failing right now, and they built such beautiful products, such amazing products that they spent years just like crafting, making so…
… back at Foursquare, do you think there was a path to building a massive consumer app type business or is that just never going to work out? I know they went in direction of B2B data business.
So that focus, that prioritization and being crisp about what you're building and what you're not building is very important. And then, in the context of the large companies, what I was going to say was, I think, is the classic innovator's…
Crossing The Chasm by Geoffrey Moore and Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma are still sort of the two classics in product management that I have quoted a lot and I have recommended to many folks.
Book
The Innovator's Dilemma
A business classic by Clayton Christensen on why successful companies often fail to adapt to disruptive innovation.
Author
Clayton Christensen
Episodes5
- Sanchan SaxenaSanchan Saxena (VP of Product at Coinbase) on the inside story of how Airbnb made it through Covid; what he’s learned from Brian Chesky, Brian Armstrong, and Kevin Systrom; much more
- Noah WeissThe 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack’s approach to product
- Eric RiesReflections on a movement
- Shweta ShrivastavaProduct lessons from Waymo
- Jeetu PatelAI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco President on the AI revolution
Transcript mentions
The Bible in tech in my mind is Innovator's Dilemma and Innovator Solutions from Clayton Christensen.
'm actually seeing this a lot right now. I'm an investor in a bunch of startups, and so many of them are failing right now, and they built such beautiful products, such amazing products that they spent years just like crafting, making so…
… back at Foursquare, do you think there was a path to building a massive consumer app type business or is that just never going to work out? I know they went in direction of B2B data business.
So that focus, that prioritization and being crisp about what you're building and what you're not building is very important. And then, in the context of the large companies, what I was going to say was, I think, is the classic innovator's…
Crossing The Chasm by Geoffrey Moore and Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma are still sort of the two classics in product management that I have quoted a lot and I have recommended to many folks.