Innovation Lockdown

  • One of consequences of the lockdown, as Ben Evans writes, is that it is a forced experiment.
  • Many things are forced to change and it creates lots of opportunities especially in the way people work together.
  • tens of thousands of software engineers are cooped up at home getting frustrated with their current tools and wondering if they can spot some pain point, or mechanic, or small difference to the flow, and solve some opportunity that no-one ever quite realised was there.
  • Success can happen even if things look entrenched. The anecdote about Dropbox is telling – everyone told Drew Houston ‘there are dozens of these already’ and he kept replying ‘yes, but which ones do you use?’
  • There are already some interesting new ideas in the chat app market.
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