Podcast
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
It explores the concept of "innovation stack", a series of unique elements that contribute to a company's success, particularly in the face of competition from powerful entities such as Amazon. The author uses the example of Square to illustrate this concept, highlighting how their unique approach allowed them to overcome a challenge.
So it set me on a two-year quest to figure out if that same thing had happened to other companies.
— Episode: How This Company Beat Amazon
Episode: How This Company Beat Amazon
It explores the concept of "innovation stack", a series of unique elements that contribute to a company's success, particularly in the face of competition from powerful entities such as Amazon. The author uses the example of Square to illustrate this concept, highlighting how their unique approach allowed them to overcome a challenge.
So it set me on a two-year quest to figure out if that same thing had happened to other companies.
And the pattern always involved this thing. And I coined a term innovation stack because it had never been described.
if you have a complicated one protects you very, very well
Very simply if you do 14 things and every one of those things is necessary for success, then what are the odds of a competitor successfully copying you?
if you read my book you will understand how that weirdness feels.