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# disruption20 quotes

DISRUPTION

The most dangerous thing in the world is an old institution that has not yet realized it is obsolete.

institutionsdisruptionThe Network State, 2022

Our whole goal is to make Uber so efficient that it's cheaper than owning a car.

visiondisruptionTravis Kalanick, 2015 interview

I told Cisco we needed to rebuild WebEx from scratch. They said no. So I went and built it myself.

entrepreneurshipconvictionEric Yuan, paraphrased from interviews

When we launched, every other brokerage charged $10 a trade. Now they all charge zero. You're welcome.

disruptioncompetitionVlad Tenev, paraphrased from interviews

Credit cards were designed in the 1950s. We thought maybe financial technology should actually use some technology.

disruptioncreditMax Levchin, conference keynote

In Brazil, the five biggest banks controlled everything. They didn't compete with each other because they didn't have to. We gave 200 million people a reason to leave.

disruptioncompetitionDavid Vélez, conference talk

Our AI chatbot does the work of 700 customer service agents. That's not a talking point — that's our actual headcount reduction.

AIefficiencySebastian Siemiatkowski, earnings call

Credit cards are a 1950s product. Pay in 4 is what credit looks like when you design it for the internet generation.

disruptionbnplSebastian Siemiatkowski, conference keynote

Banks hide their fees inside the exchange rate. We show you the real rate and charge you a small honest fee. It's not complicated. They just don't want you to know.

transparencybanksKristo Käärmann, campaign video

The cost of intelligence is going to drop to nearly zero. That changes everything about every industry on Earth.

visioneconomicsSam Altman, keynote

Search hasn't changed in 25 years. It's still a list of links. AI makes that obsolete.

disruptionsearchAravind Srinivas, conference talk

The defense industry hasn't innovated in 30 years. They build the same planes slower and more expensively. We build new things fast and cheap.

innovationdefensePalmer Luckey, Wired interview 2023

The lesson from Ukraine is clear: cheap autonomous systems beat expensive legacy platforms. The $500 drone is the new $50 million fighter jet.

warfaretechnologyPalmer Luckey, defense conference 2023

We didn't solve piracy by fighting it. We solved it by making the legal option better than the illegal one.

innovationstrategyDaniel Ek, Spotify CEO, interview 2019

I built Expedia to make travel prices transparent. Then Zillow for home prices. Glassdoor does the same for salaries. My whole career is ruining information asymmetry.

transparencyentrepreneurshipRich Barton, Glassdoor co-founder, interview 2018

ZoomInfo charges $30,000 a year. We charge a fraction of that for data that's just as accurate. The sales data market was overpriced for decades. We fixed that.

competitionpricingSeamless.AI competitive positioning, 2023

Dentists were still mailing physical molds through UPS in 2020. That's not an industry ripe for disruption — that's an industry begging for it.

disruptiondentalHenry Stott, TechCrunch interview, 2022

Glasses have been around for 800 years. The technology hasn't changed much. The only innovation in the last century was figuring out how to charge $700 for them.

disruptionpricingNeil Blumenthal, TED talk, 2014

Luxottica owns the brands, the stores, the insurance company, and the licensing. They set the price at every step. We just decided to skip all of that.

competitionluxotticaNeil Blumenthal, Fast Company interview, 2015

Trade shows cost brands $10,000 to $50,000 per event for a booth. We give them access to 700,000 retailers for the cost of listing on our platform. The math isn't hard.

trade-showsdisruptionMax Rhodes, Retail Innovation conference, 2022