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I don’t think cutthroat people help an organization in the long run. Collegial teammates are usually more successful than nasty ones.
How to Make a Few Billion Dollars
Brad Jacobs
Recently, Block laid out a new profitability framework: its goal is to reach a Rule of 40, including stock-based compensation. For example, if gross profits are growing at 20 percent, operating income (including SBC) must be 20 percent of gross profits.When this framework was announced in Block’s Q4 2022 earnings call, Dorsey made it sound like an ambitious goal:
How Mismanaged Is Block?
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Disruptive innovations, in contrast, don't attempt to bring better products to established customers in existing markets. Rather, they disrupt and redefine that trajectory by introducing products and services that are not as good as currently available products. But disruptive technologies offer other benefits-typically, they are simpler, more convenient, and less expensive products that appeal to new or less-demanding customers.
Once the disruptive product gains a foothold in new or low-end markets, the improvement cycle begins.
The Innovator's Solution
Clayton Christensen
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