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Mentoring Is the Secret to Innovation Say Silicon Valley’s Top VCs and Entrepreneurs

Leapfrogging

Mentoring transforms big ideas into high-impact innovations. Having worked with dozens of the Fortune 1000 companies , coached startups, and founded three companies, I can say there’s a universal truth when it comes to innovation: big ideas are just ideas until they deliver real value to the world. Nat Friedman, CEO of GitHub.

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Elon Musk Blows My Mind

CorporateIntel

He already did consumer software engineering as his opening act as a cofounder of PayPal. He is also the CTO of SpaceX and the chief product architect of Tesla. Here are some perhaps not so obvious reasons why: A real track record of repeat innovation. If there is a possible next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, it could be him.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

Palantir, a B2B company founded in 2004 and offering a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analysing data, has around 1,500 employees worldwide and is valued around $20 billion today. Moreover, the innovations lying at the heart of the unicorns’ success stories are digital innovations.

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I Joined Airbnb at 52, and Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and the Tech Industry

Harvard Business Review

The tech sector, which has become as famous for toxic company cultures as for innovation, and as well-known for human resource headaches as for hoodie-wearing CEOs, could use a little of the mellowness and wisdom that comes with age. That’s when Airbnb came calling. I didn’t even have the Uber app on my phone.

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As Machines Take Jobs, Companies Need to Get Creative About Making New Ones

Harvard Business Review

Another way to redefine the terms of the automation debate is to provide stock to employees, something many of the world’s most innovative companies already do. Some of the most innovative companies today are using technology to create win-win business models that allow their customers to generate income. That isn’t true.

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In Praise of Going it Alone

Harvard Business Review

Square , a financial services start-up created by Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, markets its transaction processing services directly to consumers and small businesses via the Internet. Lytro is revolutionizing not just image capturing systems, but also a camera's software and back-end computational functions.

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What Tech Companies Can Do to Become a Force for Inclusion

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, because tech roles have seemed inaccessible to those without a technical degree, the sector’s high-paying jobs have been assumed to exacerbate social divides, not narrow them. One idea is to scale up new models of code schools or tech “bootcamps.” What might that look like?