Quotes about "Innovation & Entrepreneurship"

Salesforce acquires companies - it has snapped up 55 since 2006 - that are either more innovative or that have pioneered market segments that Salesforce hasn't yet cracked. ”

ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies. ”

The rap against Tesla has always been of the 'yes, but' variety. Yes, it's a fine artisanal designer and manufacturer of electric cars, and its CEO is one of the few business leaders alive for whom the label 'visionary' isn't hyperbolic. ”

The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries. ”

Broadcom is the descendent of a nearly 60-year-old unit of the original Hewlett-Packard. Semiconductor companies are like enterprise software companies: they don't die easily. ”

Cannibalization is by far the most difficult feat any established, successful company can pull off. ”

As China's retailing champion, Alibaba makes Amazon look like a company that carefully picks its spots. Sure, Amazon does e-tailing. So does Alibaba. ”

Alphabet would be a holding company to house its wackier or noncore efforts - like its Verily life sciences, Waymo self-driving cars, and Loon Internet balloon projects - while Google's advertising-oriented business would stand apart and continue to drive the company's finances. ”

If you crave further confirmation that Silicon Valley is a magical place where magical thinking reigns, consider the tale of Roku, the video streaming company that filed to go public Friday, when alert people everywhere were headed out for a long weekend. ”

The creation of the 'Goldie Scholars' program is an acknowledgment that knowledge isn't enough. ”