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The SV crowd picked up a lot of hubris from SpaceX, Uber / Lyft, AirBnB, and other efforts to disrupt moribund industries. The key to success in those cases wa
by api 9y ago
The SV crowd picked up a lot of hubris from SpaceX, Uber / Lyft, AirBnB, and other efforts to disrupt moribund industries.
The key to success in those cases was that those industries were quite moribund. In the case of space it was nearly comatose.
Attempts to radically leapfrog and disrupt less stale industries are going to be quite a bit harder.
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- neaden 9y agoI mean, in the case of Uber, Lyft, and AirBnB a lot of their advantages came from breaking laws as well, something that can be tolerated a lot more in those industries.
- ptero 9y agoIt is still worthwhile to try though. Yes, many attempts fail, but they might still give some useful nuggets. And they are often cheap: a failure of established process may 10000 times more expensive than a disruption attempt (e.g. 1.5T F-35 vs 100M for cheaper drones).
- CaptainZapp 9y agoWhere exactly is the lodging industry moribund?