"Disruption"
Articles and mentions
GigaOM
The Origins of Amazon's Cloud Computing
I told Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOM the actual origin story of EC2: Chris Pinkham wanted to move home to South Africa, and I, the ops guy, was at first horrified.
“I was horrified at the thought of the dirty, public Internet touching MY beautiful operations.”
O'Reilly Radar
You Become What You Disrupt
What happens when disruptive technologies win a platform play and take on the obligations of the systems they replaced? Jesse Robbins coined this principle on O'Reilly Radar in 2007.
“You become what you disrupt. What changes occur when you win a platform play, when you go from disruptive technology to a public utility?”