Blank: Executors cannot invent innovation systems, and innovators hate process
Steve Blank · How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Embarrassing The U.S. Government · Joe Lonsdale · Nov 22, 2024 · at 26:27
Steve Blank contrasts the bureaucratic operating model of the Pentagon with Silicon Valley's innovation culture.
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“The DOD is built around execution. Execution of processes and PBE and whatever. Silicon Valley is built around innovators who create new things that never existed before. And here's the rub. The executors never come up with innovation processes. I mean, they'll do it around the edges, and it's not that we don't innovate incrementally, but innovators at the same time hate coming up with process.”
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