Bet on the big idea—the only way to change the world

Bet on the big idea—the only way to change the world

“By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.” Looking back, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman’s 1998 statement sounds like a failure of imagination. But at the time, his skepticism represented a familiar story: Bold, visionary ideas are met with resistance and fear from industries entrenched in conventional wisdom. Yet, time and again, we’ve seen how disruptor…