Scott D. Anthony

They found Nicholas of Cusa, who was looking for ways to standardize religious ceremonies.

A bunch of people are coming together.

It always requires a bunch of people coming together.

Of course, there's a hero in the story.

There always is.

but there usually are multiple ones.

There are heroes and there always are lots of people involved in it.

So I love solopreneurs.

My 14-year-old son, Harry, who is at that 14-year-old awkwardness and says, can I just build a huge business without ever talking to anyone?

I encourage him to go as far as he can, but I say, Harry, you really are going to have to learn how to look people in the eye and talk with them.

Harry, I apologize for sharing this story during this podcast, but over time, I hope you appreciate it.

Well, I was just speaking at an event recently and they said, well, we want to hear your own story.

So I said, okay, let me tell you a version of my story at least.

So my first face-to-face experience encounter with disruptive innovation was in 1995 when I was the managing editor of a newspaper.

Now, if you've tracked what I said about how old I am and when I was born, you'll very quickly recognize that I was not the editor of the New York Times or Wall Street Journal.

This was my college newspaper.

I was 20 years old at the time.

1995 was an important year because the year before, Mark Andreessen and his team had introduced the Netscape browser.

So there we were, a leadership team staring a disruptive change in the face, and we made all the mistakes.

We hesitated to allocate resources towards it.