Business Model Transformation Quotes

The laws of business physics have been broken in terms of how many customers you can acquire and how fast. No one in history has ever acquired 450 million customers in the same amount of time that WhatsApp did.

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

I think we operate in a very dynamic marketplace, and as such, we need to constantly innovate.

Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.

From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.

For most western executives, innovation is about breakthrough technology or innovation. If it's not breakthrough, it's not interesting, and it's all about technology and products.

Deutsche Bank has a very simple problem. It doesn't make money.

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.

As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.

Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

For any business that has an indirect model to move into the direct business is very difficult and very challenging.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

Everything is always coming from something else. Even if you create something, it has to be inspired by something else. If you think of Apple and Steve Jobs, he had to be inspired by something that launched the ideas in his head.

We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.

Yes, the disruption of the Internet can be blamed for the destruction of the business model that once made journalism a thriving, well-paying enterprise, but it has also created an array of new tools for reporting. Somebody will eventually figure out how to make online newspapers profitable - I hope.