Adam Lashinsky Quotes

Adam Lashinsky is an American journalist and author. He has worked as an editor for Fortune magazine and has written extensively on business and technology topics. Lashinsky's insightful analysis and commentary on the tech industry have made him a respected figure in the field of business journalism.

I've written repeatedly about the quest by corporations everywhere to transform themselves digitally.

If one's man's trash is another man's treasure, then one industry's potential failure is another's opportunity.

Amazon has a good record with customers, who are confident the retailer will give them the lowest price. Entering their home will be another thing altogether.

No matter your interpretation of Apple's success with its Watch, it has become a leader - and it wasn't first to market.

Amazon is pursuing something called Amazon Key, which lets its couriers unlock Prime customers' doors and deliver packages. It's pairing the service, which it plans to make available in 37 cities next month, with a camera so users will have intelligence inside and outside their homes, presumably boosting trust and lowering creepiness.

Should Ford succeed in equipping all its cars with information that gets communicated back to its servers, it will become a 'big data' company, a beyond-vehicles opportunity that is as promising as it is murky.

Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It's the holy grail of business, but achieving it - even merely explaining it - is lightning-in-a-bottle difficult.

Cannibalization is by far the most difficult feat ... -Adam Lashinsky

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

Amazon led with online bookselling, web services, ... -Adam Lashinsky

Amazon led with online bookselling, web services, and drones.

Sony's Walkman far predated the iPod. Nokia ruled ... -Adam Lashinsky

Sony's Walkman far predated the iPod. Nokia ruled smartphones before Apple.

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

AIM started in 1997, and I remember when I started using it in earnest, in 1999, when I joined TheStreet.com from 'The San Jose Mercury News'. We digital journalism pioneers communicated obsessively by AIM, and as a newbie, I recall being amazed that the whole newsroom was 'chatting' this way.

Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend it... -Adam Lashinsky

Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money.

A 'free and open' Internet has been an article of faith in and around Mountain View, Menlo Park, and its environs for two decades.

What makes Samsung so mysterious is that it's not altogether clear who leads the company or what its leaders do. The company follows an avowedly Confucian model of consensus-driven decision-making, values bone-crushingly hard work, and shows tremendous deference to the founding Lee family, despite its lack of a controlling interest in its shares.

ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and sell-side analysts who embarrassed themselves by pumping it up.

The summer before my senior year in college, I talked my way into an unpaid internship on Capitol Hill. I was able to have this stimulating resume- and network- enhancing experience because my parents could afford to keep me clothed, housed, and fed in the nation's capital for 10 weeks.

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.

Porat is among a handful of top people who work for both Alphabet and Google. As such, there's a regular cadence to her week.

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.

As a new Googler, Porat spent some time learning the words that describe the Googley people who work in those buildings.

Apple is so secretive internally, they keep secret... -Adam Lashinsky

Apple is so secretive internally, they keep secrets from each other.

Groceries, TV shows, and shoes are a few categorie... -Adam Lashinsky

Groceries, TV shows, and shoes are a few categories Amazon has been willing to hang onto for years.

The creation of the 'Goldie Scholars' program is a... -Adam Lashinsky

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

With innovative companies and products like Tencent's WeChat messaging service and novel approaches to artificial intelligence and various business models, China rapidly is becoming an innovator in its own right.

I stopped using AIM years ago - I can't remember exactly when - and so its demise shouldn't mean much to me.

Roku collects money two ways: by selling hardware, which it calls 'players'; and by selling advertising and taking a cut of revenues from the video publishers on its platform.

Bernard Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, sees technology as an augmentation to current healing tools - but not a replacement for human kindness, an integral part of healthcare.

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.

If SoftBank can complete the tender offer it contemplates to buy a large stake in Uber, the company's bizarre governance war will be over for the time being, putting Uber back on par with other normal companies whose boards of directors dont fight publicly with each other.

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