Salim Ismail Quotes

Every 10x drop in tokens means we're doing 100 times more experiments.

OKR tracks individual, team and company goals and outcomes in an open and transparent way.

One exemplar of that pending disruption is teenager Jack Andraka, who at the age of fourteen single-handedly developed an early-stage detection test for pancreatic cancer that costs just three cents. His approach (awaiting peer review) is 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and 126 times faster than today's diagnostics. Big Pharma has no idea how to deal with Jack, who is one of many wunderkinds emerging globally, all of them with the potential to disrupt great companies and long-established industries. The Jacks of the world bring exponential

Millennials — those born between 1984 and 2002 — are showing an orientation towards seeking meaning and purpose in their lives.

How quickly can you convert exponential growth into the critical mass needed to become a platform? Once that happens there is no practical limit. It's one big coral reef.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Doing anything significant, big, and bold requires a TON of hard work. It also involves countless risks, setbacks, and restarts. While some people are lucky, most success stories require recovering one more time, facing the challenge, and beginning again. Over and over.

Agents aren't going to be ideological. They're going to be ruthlessly functional.

in the future, the defining metric for organizations won't be ROI (Return on Investment), but ROL (Return on Learning).

We define Experimentation as the implementation of the Lean Startup methodology of testing assumptions and constantly experimenting with controlled risks.

6Ds: Digitized, Deceptive, Disruptive, Dematerialize, Demonetize and Democratize. Any technology that

Today, if you're not disrupting yourself, someone else is; your fate is to be either the disrupter or the disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Enables coherent exponential growth • Binds collective aspirations • Attracts top talent across the ecosystem • Supports a cooperative/non-political culture • Enables agility and learning

5P benefits of big data: productivity, prevention, participation, personalization and prediction.

matrix structures is that, over time, power accrues to the horizontals. Often, HR or legal have no incentive to say yes, so their default answer becomes no (which is why HR is often referred to as "inhuman resources"). It's not that HR people are bad people. But, over time, their incentives end up at cross-purposes with those of product managers.