Adam Lashinsky

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

— Adam Lashinsky

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

— Adam Lashinsky

Uber has a lot of money, and they've hired a lot of good people, and they have the capacity to professionalize.

— Adam Lashinsky

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

— Adam Lashinsky

The cloud, for a while more of a metaphor than a giant business, is re-ordering all sorts of industries.

— Adam Lashinsky

“The key, said Borchers, was highlighting exactly what made the iPhone stand out”

— Adam Lashinsky

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

— Adam Lashinsky

“You either did or you didn't - there is no try. - Steve Jobs.”

— Adam Lashinsky

Bernard Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, sees technology as an augmentation to current healing tools - but not a replacement for human…

— Adam Lashinsky

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

“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

“Obsessing over details and bringing a Buddhist level of focus to a narrow assortment of offerings sets Apple apart from its competitors.”

— Adam Lashinsky

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

Neither a success nor by any means a failure, Roku will nevertheless ask public investors for money because they, too, have a…

— Adam Lashinsky

“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

“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

“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…

— Adam Lashinsky

“Buddhism—a faith Jobs studied intensely—teaches that if you are going to prepare a cup of tea, the making of the cup of…

— Adam Lashinsky

Global affairs consultant Ian Bremmer, founder of the Eurasia Group, has started a newsletter called 'Signal,' aimed at millennials. For years, Bremmer…

— Adam Lashinsky

“PC makers put crapware on their computers—antivirus software, subscription offers, and so on—precisely because the revenue is lucrative. Apple forgoes such opportunities…

— Adam Lashinsky

“The hallmarks of the Apple product message are, as with so much at Apple, simplicity and clarity. Throughout its history, Apple has…

— Adam Lashinsky

Newfangled online sites like 'Business Insider' and 'Huffington Post' built businesses they later sold for hundreds of millions of dollars by ripping…

— Adam Lashinsky

Tesla has humiliated established carmakers with its brilliant vision. But Detroit, Turin, Stuttgart, and so on have understood scale as well as…

— Adam Lashinsky

“large companies do not usually have efficient communication paths from the people closest to some of these changes at the bottom of…

— Adam Lashinsky

“Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision,” he told Playboy in 1985. “They insert lots of layers…

— Adam Lashinsky

“Jobs also took a direct interest in where the ads ran. He favored TV shows that fit the sensibility of Apple’s perceived…

— Adam Lashinsky

“We will figure something out that seems relatively interesting and … spend some time in Northern Japan, talking to the master about…

— Adam Lashinsky

“Human minds settle into fixed ways of looking at the world, and that’s always been true,” he said in a 1995 interview…

— Adam Lashinsky

“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

“Logistics is in fact a key aspect of military planning, and Cook is responsible for Apple’s operational excellence. For example, when Apple…

— Adam Lashinsky

“An unwillingness to stick a finger in the wind of customer requirements was one of Steve Jobs’s favorite tropes over the years.…

— Adam Lashinsky

“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

“Apple's approach to career development is yet another way it runs contrary to the norms at other companies. The prevalent attitude for…

— Adam Lashinsky

“Apple may not do customer research to decide what products to make, but it absolutely pays attention to how customers use its…

— Adam Lashinsky

“I always considered part of my job was to keep the quality level of people in the organizations I work with very…

— Adam Lashinsky

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

— Adam Lashinsky

“The goal of the Apple stores was to appeal to non-Macintosh customers,”

— Adam Lashinsky

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

— Adam Lashinsky

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

— Adam Lashinsky

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

— Adam Lashinsky