At Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference taking place this week in Aspen, the fireworks went off between Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and now executive chairman, and Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and outspoken libertarian. They both started out addressing whether or not technology has improved humanity in the past 30 years but soon ended …
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Mar 30
Facebook: Time for a Reality Check
As Facebook gears up for what is expected to be one of the biggest IPOs of all time, it’s worth noting that companies like Facebook and Google can suffer from the hype of trendiness. In his best-selling book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, Harvard professor Clayton Christensen broke new ground when he detailed how a disruptive innovation …