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How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation Aug 25, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:01 Steven Sinofsky Because there's an old joke at Harvard Business School when Clay was, was still with us, which was, they really, it's weird that they teach disruption as a theory in the business school, when really it should just be a fact in the physics…

The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything. Dec 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:48 Jonathan Swanson Called How You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen, and he basically told the story of how Harvard Business School professor, kids come back at reunions, and they're Fortune 500 CEOs, super rich, and their lives are in shambles,…

Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed) Dec 3, 2025 · 1 mention

Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI? Nov 7, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:59 unnamed speaker As we look out at the next decade or two, do you think that AI is more likely to be sustaining or disruptive in the Christian sense?

Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie Sep 24, 2025 · 3 mentions

Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products Sep 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:00 Chris Dixon Um, and so that's, you know, that's kind of why, I mean, Clay Christensen calls this disruptive technologies.
  • ▶ 30:15 Chris Dixon I mean, if you go back and just like with the semiconductor analogy I mentioned, like, you know, the canonical case study in, um, in, in Clay Christensen's, uh, Innovator's Dilemma book is, uh, you know, the hard, the PC industry, the hard…

Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech Aug 8, 2025 · 2 mentions

Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption Jul 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 10:55 Aaron Levie But like if you, if you do pure Clay Christensen sort of, you know, approach, you, you know, sustaining innovation, disruptive innovation.

How Andreessen Horowitz Disrupted VC & What’s Coming Next Apr 29, 2025 · 1 mention

Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto Feb 20, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 17:16 Chris Dixon Another way maybe to frame Mark's thinking is, um, kind of the Clay Christensen view. 2 times in the scene

What's Next for the Internet? Dec 19, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 4:25 Chris Dixon Um, but that, that, then in my mind, that was the next wave, right, which, which, uh, I think even at the time, uh, we all knew the iPhone, like we probably, I had an iPhone, you probably had an iPhone, but the idea that it was going to be… 3 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future Feb 26, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:36 Sonal Chokshi He's modeling that off Clay Christensen's disruption theory. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Pulse Check on Consumer Tech Trends 2019, CES and Beyond Feb 26, 2019 · 1 mention

What's Next for Education Startups Jan 10, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:50 Li Jin Um, so Clayton Christensen has, you know, coined the term disruptive innovation, and he made the really bold prediction about 10 years ago that half of all colleges in the U.S. would be bankrupt by now, and that hasn't quite happened,…

a16z Podcast | Technological Trends, Capital, and Internet 'Disruption' Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:38 Sonal Chokshi Are we seeing disruption or is a lot of current innovation just a sustaining innovation to borrow from Clay Christensen's framework?
  • ▶ 11:49 Chris Dixon But there's the, uh, there's a lot of that happening, but a lot of it feels sustaining, as like Clay Christensen would say, not disruptive, right?

a16z Podcast | Tesla and the Nature of Disruption Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:44 Steven Sinofsky So what GM did is they did Clay Christensen before the book existed, which is they started a whole brand, they hired all different people, they relaxed every constraint imaginable, and they said, go do it.

a16z Podcast | Market Shifts Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:46 Jeff Jordan In the Clay Christensen view of the world, the threat to NASDAQ is you're the incumbent who's investing to optimize your current systems, and the, you know, the scrappy little

a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 26:50 Benedict Evans It's like Stachristikson calls them like hyper or super evolved organisms. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization' Jan 2, 2019 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:58 Reed Hastings And that's when we realized, wow, it's starting, it's beginning, and so we started that effort then, which was a mix of content licensing and technology development, and then launched that in 2007, and then, as Clay probably described, the… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:26 Marc Andreessen So the other thing, of course, Clay talks about, about why companies tend not to be able to make this shift is because the management team, the guys, the people with P&L responsibility for the old business, consider the new thing to be a…

a16z Podcast | So Where Are We on the 'S-curve' for PC Devices? Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:42 Benedict Evans Where the x-ay-six, windows and mouse and keyboard interface is the old way of doing things, and the ARM touch interface is a new way of doing things, and one of those is on the flat part of the S-curve, and the other is on the up part of…

a16z Podcast | Banking on the Blockchain Jan 2, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 22:28 Sonal Chokshi Clay Christensen actually said, like, the worst place to develop a new business model is from within your existing business model. 2 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker Jan 2, 2019 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 19:57 Marc Andreessen Um, it has this scary name, um, and the reason it has this scary name is because the idea of disruption was invented by this guy, Clay Christensen, who's a professor at Harvard, and so, you know, he's, he's a guy who comes out with a new… 4 times in the scene

a16z Podcast | Bitcoin's Growing Pains -- and Possibilities Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:44 Chris Dixon You know, so Clay Christensen, who, you know, who coined the phrase disruption, disruptive innovation, um, he has, he defines two kinds of disruption.

a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile's Third OS Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

a16z Podcast | Secrets, Power Laws, and Technology – The Ideas of “Zero to One” Jan 2, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 5:06 Blake Masters Uh, but even that bias, uh, you know, there's a linguistic bias there pro competition or like, you know, Clay Christensen talks about disruption.

a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 2 Jan 2, 2019 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 0:20 Michael Copeland Disruption theory's been in the news of late as it relates to Clayton Christensen, you know, the master of this, and, um, I just want to ask you guys not so much about the criticism of, of him, but from where you sit, that theory and his… 6 times in the scene
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