February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 33m
English
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Chapter 1 How Much Time Do You Have?
How did you go bankrupt?
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
—Ernest Hemingway, author
What company is this? Early private investor in a major ride-sharing leader. Licensed to test more fully autonomous cars on California roads than any other company. Builder of a business model that can prosper in a future where many people own cars but do not drive and others don’t want to own a car at all. Recognized as the first company delivering a long-range, sporty electric car that the average person can afford. Willing to pay a massive premium to acquire Silicon Valley–based talent in order to win the long game of digital disruption in the automotive industry. Just received an investment of $2.25 billion from famed dealmaker Masayoshi Son at SoftBank.
Google? Apple? Tesla? Amazon? Uber? Those would all be excellent guesses. The company is actually General Motors. A company that just 10 years ago required a US government bailout to survive the global financial crisis. Today GM is thriving in spite of the global automotive industry being rapidly transformed by the trifecta of digital innovation: electrification, autonomy, and sharing.
Rewriting David versus Goliath
If the business world actually reflected the biblical story of David versus Goliath, established companies built over generations would struggle valiantly against the digital upstarts but would be so visually impaired and unimaginative that they would not be able to see the rock coming. ...
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