DISQUS

The Gong Show: Implications of the Rise of Non-Employer Businesses

  • Ethan Bauley · 1 year ago
    Right...ya what Hagel is getting into in that article I ref'd over at USV is there will be 3 kinds of firms in "the future":

    The first two will generally be enormous in scale (logistics) or scope (CRM):

    logistics = (Amazon, especially FWS et al)

    CRM (AdWords, etc)

    All the rest will be smaller "product/service innovation firms" that invent cool shit and then plug into the infrastructure/platforms provided by the logistics/CRM

    Clearly someone at AMZ is into this vision

    That's my read on Hagel anyways...

    I just started his 2005 book "The Only Sustainable Edge" and it is mind blowing. His blog is equally incisive: edgeperspectives.typepad.com
  • andrewparker · 1 year ago
    Very cool vision. And many investments to make there (for those who
    subscribe to it). I'll dig into the blog, thanks.
  • BJ Fogg · 1 year ago
    Andrew,

    You make a great point in your post. Our students were in an interesting situation where some were making more money than their parents because of a class project. Some were entertaining job offers and acquisition offers before the class ended.

    It is an interesting time to be a part of the consumer internet. If you'd like to know more about the findings from our class, here are some slides from a recent presentation at the Graphing Social Patterns conference.

    http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dcqn4jpj...

    BJ