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

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Amazon Drones Led Online Services Web

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Groceries, TV shows, and shoes are a few categories Amazon has been willing to hang onto for years.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Amazon Been Categories Few Groceries Hang Onto Shoes Shows Tv Tv Shows Willing Years

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ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and sell-side analysts who embarrassed themselves by pumping it up.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Analyst Bankers Became Embarrassed Example Extreme Hubris Investment Joke Management Part Pumping Themselves Up Who

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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

Topics: Collection Companies Focused Fund Internet Investments Much So-Called

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Innovation, like creativity, is an amorphous concept. It's the holy grail of business, but achieving it - even merely explaining it - is lightning-in-a-bottle difficult.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Achieving Business Concept Creativity Difficult Even Explaining Holy Innovation Like Merely

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Innovation has its limits, of course, and Salesforce has proved adept at supplementing its growth with acquisitions, a tool long available to older rivals like Oracle and SAP.

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Topics: Acquisitions Adept Available Course Growth Innovation Like Limits Long Older Oracle Proved Rivals Sap Tool

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Salesforce acquires companies - it has snapped up 55 since 2006 - that are either more innovative or that have pioneered market segments that Salesforce hasn't yet cracked.

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Topics: Companies Cracked Either Innovative Market More Segments Since Up

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Salesforce employees are so immersed in the fervor over their offerings and their unique workplace that they are nearly incredulous to learn that few people beyond the legions of customers using Salesforce's product have the faintest idea what the company does.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Beyond Company Customers Does Employees Fervor Few Few People Idea Immersed Learn Nearly Over People Product Unique Using Workplace

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

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Defend Endlessly Facebook Itself Keeps Long Money Printing Spend Talk

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

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Aim Demise Exactly Me Mean Much Remember Stopped Using Years Years Ago

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: Unknown

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