Book · recommended on 1 episode
Competing Against Luck
Clay Christensen ISBN 9780062435613
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Clay Christensen ISBN 9780062435613
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This book by Clay Christensen came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Kevin Systrom. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
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“there's this um great book by clay christensen called competing against luck it's like a terrible uh title but within it there's effectively an expression”— Kevin Systrom
The guest here is Kevin Systrom: Co-founder and longtime CEO of Instagram, which he sold to Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion and ran for six more years. A Stanford grad and former Google corporate-development employee turned consumer-product entrepreneur. Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom on building a billion-dollar app, the future of social networks, and why everything worth doing is hard.
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