If SoftBank can complete the tender offer it contemplates to buy a large stake in Uber, the company's bizarre governance war will… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
The reliable way great conglomerates grew over time was by adding new products and buying new companies. IBM moved from mainframe to… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
As a new Googler, Porat spent some time learning the words that describe the Googley people who work in those buildings. — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“You’re going to do twenty briefings, and they’ll all sound exactly the same to you. But that’s what you want, because the… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
AIM was so quaint, it organized users around 'buddy lists.' In a time before smartphones, AIM was powerful and intoxicating, a way… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
One of the world's most successful and yet mysterious companies in the world, Samsung Electronics, has been operating without its leader for… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“We will figure something out that seems relatively interesting and … spend some time in Northern Japan, talking to the master about… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“The reason you have committees is that you have divided responsibilities,” Jobs said. “We don’t. At Apple you can figure out exactly who is… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Groceries, TV shows, and shoes are a few categories Amazon has been willing to hang onto for years. — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
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… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“George Blankenship, a top executive of Apple’s retail initiative when it began, explained the very real link between storytelling and driving demand.” — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Apple is a military-like command-and-control organization where people lower down in the organization manage up. They are constantly preparing their boss who may be… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“The trick with selling breakthrough products is to explain them clearly.” — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Roku collects money two ways: by selling hardware, which it calls 'players'; and by selling advertising and taking a cut of revenues from the… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Ive’s dreamy insistence on a stainless-steel bezel for iPhones and industrial-grade glass for iPads, for instance, paid off in a way that managers worried… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“I always considered part of my job was to keep the quality level of people in the organizations I work with very high. That’s… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Chinese companies, in their well-capitalized, rapidly growing, and surprisingly lightly regulated markets, have become global innovation leaders. — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
