Disruption will always be capitalism's secret sauce

Disruption will always be capitalism's secret sauce
Desktop computers such as the IBM 5100 (1975) are examples of disruption. Previously, only big companies and universities could afford the machines that then drove the computer industry. (Image: Wikipedia)
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By Adrian Wooldridge Ten years ago, “disruption” was the business world’s battle cry. Start-ups promised to disrupt every industry under the sun. Venture capitalists refused to fund anybody who didn’t promise to break things. Nervous corporate leaders talked about “disrupting themselves” before somebody else did it for them. The HBO sitcom Silicon Valley dispatched its tech-bro heroes to a conference called “TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014” (which was indeed a real thing).Today...

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