Read the Worm Capital Q&A With Clayton Christensen On Disruptive Innovation
Clayton Christensen, for many, is a man with no need for introduction: He is the author of nearly a dozen books about innovation, an entrepreneur himself, and the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
In my view, he is also perhaps the world’s foremost pioneer of innovation theory—a diligent student of business and technology who has spent a career unpacking the mechanics of disruptive innovation for thousands of eager readers around the globe.
In fact, I was one such reader back when I read his best-selling 1997 book, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. It would not be an exaggeration to say that this book, at least in part, helped inspire me to found Worm Capital , and to design a portfolio centered on the next generation of disruptive technologies. As I’ve often said, several years ago I recognized that technological disruption could profoundly change our world. So I built a strategy from the ground up to invest in disruption.
All of which to say: It's quite exciting for me that I had the opportunity to read a copy of Professor Christensen's latest book, The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty , and to ask him a few questions about his research.
