Except the empirical data does not really back Clay's thesis in The Innovator’s Dilemma. Jill Lepore had an excellent analysis of the track record in a famous n

Except the empirical data does not really back Clay's thesis in The Innovator’s Dilemma. Jill Lepore had an excellent analysis of the track record in a famous new yorker article (1) which caused pmarca to melt down on twitter. In his defense, I think the disruption thesis holds when the industry is fragmented. When a disrupter goes up against a monopoly/duopoly or oligopoly, it fails. Just a conjecture. Even more generally, in business there are few hard and fast rules and even the ones that work lose their efficacy as the participants learn and adjust to them. Which is a good thing for the system as a whole. I would speculate that entrepreneurs should now look beyond disruption. (1). http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-...