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Adam Lashinsky
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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. Adam Lashinsky
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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. Adam Lashinsky
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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. Adam Lashinsky
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Amazon led with online bookselling, web services, and drones. Adam Lashinsky
Web Online Drones Amazon Led Services
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. Adam Lashinsky
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The creation of the 'Goldie Scholars' program is an acknowledgment that knowledge isn't enough. Adam Lashinsky
Knowledge Creation Enough Scholars Acknowledgment Program
When I was a senior in college, I attended an inspiring conference at West Point called the Student Conference on U.S. Affairs, which paired political science majors with cadets in the hopes of building future civilian-military relationships. Adam Lashinsky
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If one's man's trash is another man's treasure, then one industry's potential failure is another's opportunity. Adam Lashinsky
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As a new Googler, Porat spent some time learning the words that describe the Googley people who work in those buildings. Adam Lashinsky
Work Time Learning People Words Spent Those Some New Buildings Who Describe
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. Adam Lashinsky
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Sony's Walkman far predated the iPod. Nokia ruled smartphones before Apple. Adam Lashinsky
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No matter your interpretation of Apple's success with its Watch, it has become a leader - and it wasn't first to market. Adam Lashinsky
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Chip maker Nvidia is the new old thing, an overnight success story years in the making that is having its moment and then some. Adam Lashinsky
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When I published a book earlier this year about Uber, the most common question I got about it was how many of the tumultuous events of 2017 I was able to include. My gag-line response: I managed to cover the first 17 scandals of the year, but not Nos. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and so on. Adam Lashinsky
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As the finish line for 2017 begins to come into focus, I'm beginning to wonder what an Uber turnaround would look like. Adam Lashinsky
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People tend to wonder when Alibaba will enter the U.S. market. But those people are asking the wrong question. Alibaba reckons that, in 2010, China and the U.S. had an equal number of online shoppers, about 140 million. Adam Lashinsky
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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. Adam Lashinsky
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The reliable way great conglomerates grew over time was by adding new products and buying new companies. IBM moved from mainframe to PCs. Adam Lashinsky
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The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries. Adam Lashinsky
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Tesla has humiliated established carmakers with its brilliant vision. But Detroit, Turin, Stuttgart, and so on have understood scale as well as capital allocation for decades. Such gargantuan tasks could yet humiliate Tesla. Adam Lashinsky
Vision Brilliant Humiliate Humiliated Scale Could Detroit Allocation Well Understood Tesla Decades Tasks Established Capital
Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if not its profit engine - stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too. Adam Lashinsky
Profit Too Spending Given Investors Droughts Over Alphabet Idle Causing Years Amazon Stock Microsoft Engine Products Suffered Growth
Dynamic pricing - charging more when goods and services are in high demand and short supply and less when the opposite is true - isn't new. Gasoline retailers, hoteliers, and airlines have been deploying the technique for years. Adam Lashinsky
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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. Adam Lashinsky
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Salesforce employees are so immersed in the fervor over their offerings and their unique workplace that they are nearly incredulous to learn that few people beyond the legions of customers using Salesforce's product have the faintest idea what the company does. Adam Lashinsky
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I confess that, like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn't been heard from in eons, I didn't know AIM, as we all called it, still existed at all. Adam Lashinsky
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AIM was so quaint, it organized users around 'buddy lists.' In a time before smartphones, AIM was powerful and intoxicating, a way for a generation that once had called people on the phone to communicate in quick bursts from their computers. Adam Lashinsky
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