I stopped using AIM years ago - I can't remember exactly when - and so its demise shouldn't mean much to me. — Adam Lashinsky Aim Copy Share Image
Amazon led with online bookselling, web services, and drones. — Adam Lashinsky Amazon Copy Share Image
Facebook can spend and talk endlessly to defend itself so long as it keeps printing money. — Adam Lashinsky Defend Copy Share Image
Uber has a lot of money, and they've hired a lot of good people, and they have the capacity to professionalize. — Adam Lashinsky Good Copy Share Image
The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries. — Adam Lashinsky Business Copy Share Image
“The key, said Borchers, was highlighting exactly what made the iPhone stand out” — Adam Lashinsky Technology 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… — Adam Lashinsky Chip 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… — Adam Lashinsky Committees Copy Share Image
“The reason they didn’t discuss expenses is almost certainly because their bosses didn’t, either. Jobs held that authority himself and monitored it… — Adam Lashinsky Didn Discuss Copy Share Image
“Managers at all levels of Apple said they rarely were pressed for any kind of financial analysis or to defend decisions based… — Adam Lashinsky Apple Copy Share Image
“I don't know anyone who wouldn't say it's the most fulfilling experience in their lives. People love it. Which is different from… — Adam Lashinsky Fulfilling Copy Share Image
“That kind of attention to detail means that as a result you really can’t do a lot of things. You have to… — Adam Lashinsky Attention to detail Copy Share Image
People tend to wonder when Alibaba will enter the U.S. market. But those people are asking the wrong question. Alibaba reckons that,… — Adam Lashinsky China Copy Share Image
Innovation has its limits, of course, and Salesforce has proved adept at supplementing its growth with acquisitions, a tool long available to… — Adam Lashinsky Acquisitions Copy Share Image
“A few years later Jobs rhapsodized about Land in an interview with Playboy. “Land was a troublemaker,” Jobs said. “He dropped out… — Adam Lashinsky Art and science Copy Share Image
“Saying no is a core tenet of Apple product development and, for that matter, Apple’s approach to doing business. In fact, the… — Adam Lashinsky Core strength Copy Share Image
The summer before my senior year in college, I talked my way into an unpaid internship on Capitol Hill. I was able… — Adam Lashinsky Capitol hill Copy Share Image
When I published a book earlier this year about Uber, the most common question I got about it was how many of… — Adam Lashinsky Book 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… — Adam Lashinsky Alphabet Copy Share Image
“From Apple’s iconic “Think Different” campaign in 1997 featuring images of Gandhi and Einstein and Bob Dylan (and no Apple products) to… — Adam Lashinsky Apple Copy Share Image
Dynamic pricing - charging more when goods and services are in high demand and short supply and less when the opposite is… — Adam Lashinsky Dynamic Copy Share Image
“In a company organized along functional rather than divisional lines, scouting must be a core competency of its leader. Steve Jobs long… — Adam Lashinsky Business 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 Architecture Copy Share Image
“Apple’s marketing and communications team works in a building just across from 1 Infinite Loop called M-3, the M standing for “Mariani… — Adam Lashinsky Communication Copy Share Image
“Asked why he lived so humbly, he once said: “I like to be reminded of where I came from, and putting myself… — Adam Lashinsky Money Copy Share Image
Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It's the holy grail of business, but achieving it - even merely explaining it -… — Adam Lashinsky Business Copy Share Image
A 'free and open' Internet has been an article of faith in and around Mountain View, Menlo Park, and its environs for… — Adam Lashinsky Faith Copy Share Image
As China's retailing champion, Alibaba makes Amazon look like a company that carefully picks its spots. Sure, Amazon does e-tailing. So does… — Adam Lashinsky Amazon Copy Share Image
ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies. — Adam Lashinsky Collection Copy Share Image
Bernard Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, sees technology as an augmentation to current healing tools - but not a replacement for human… — Adam Lashinsky Current Copy Share Image
“Obsessing over details and bringing a Buddhist level of focus to a narrow assortment of offerings sets Apple apart from its competitors.” — Adam Lashinsky Apple Copy Share Image
“He overtly thinks about the simplicity of Apple’s design and attention to detail. “We are primarily about building a really pure user… — Adam Lashinsky Apple Copy Share Image
“Steve’s talked about the goal of Apple, and the goal of Apple is not to make money but to make really nice… — Adam Lashinsky Goals Copy Share Image
Neither a success nor by any means a failure, Roku will nevertheless ask public investors for money because they, too, have a… — Adam Lashinsky Dream Copy Share Image
“The way you end any discussion at Apple is: ‘It’s the right thing for the product.’ If you bring the data that… — Adam Lashinsky Apple Copy Share Image
Porat is among a handful of top people who work for both Alphabet and Google. As such, there's a regular cadence to… — Adam Lashinsky Alphabet Copy Share Image
“Inventory, Cook would later explain, “is fundamentally evil. You want to manage it like you’re in the dairy business: If it gets… — Adam Lashinsky Business Copy Share Image
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… — Adam Lashinsky Business Copy Share Image
ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and… — Adam Lashinsky Customer Copy Share Image
