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> I'm talking about Microsoft, Uber, Amazon etc... the ones who have literally changed the way people live. ...or they road a wave... You didn't mention Walma
by cbsmith 11y ago
> I'm talking about Microsoft, Uber, Amazon etc... the ones who have literally changed the way people live.
...or they road a wave...
You didn't mention Walmart. ;-)
Uber has had a number of competitors, back in their day when they were "changing the world", so did Microsoft & Amazon. Hell, Microsoft's operating system ride started with an operating system they bought from someone else.
If you grow at a crazy fast rate to become a household name, you inherently are riding some kind of wave change. I don't think that was what the MIT Microfluidics PhD friend was referring to as "novel". If you want to call that "novel", then you are going to have a much harder time making the case that Theranos isn't trying to be novel.
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoYou didn't mention Walmart. ;-) Well they are the ones being disrupted currently. They did it in the 80s and 90s to Sears and the rest. you are going to have a much harder time making the case that Theranos isn't trying to be novel. I actually think Theranos is trying to be novel, my initial response was that maximizing value isn't something new in the valley. I have no clue on whether they are or not in reality, but they portray themselves as actually making new technology - my guess is that they just can't do it and are trying to buy time.