![]() ![]() People Don’t Want to be Trapped in a Walled Gardenįirst, S3, AB admitted, has a huge lead, but people will soon realize they do not want to be trapped in a walled garden and beholden to Amazon’s pricing and policies. He provided three compelling reasons that convinced me to find a way to work with him and his new company. ![]() When I first met AB in 2015, I asked him why he chose to spend his time and prodigious talent in a space with a declared winner in S3 and with plenty of others vying for what’s left. Electric cars existed for decades, but then were given high-end designs and features by Tesla, making them more appealing to the consumer.ĪB Periasamy, Garima Kapoor and Harshavardhana followed a similar approach when they founded MinIO, significantly improving object storage which had already been offered by traditional storage appliances from Cleversafe, Amplidata and Scality as well as cloud services from AWS, with its Simple Storage Service (S3). Blackberry appeared to have won the smart phone market until Apple created the iPhone with a touch screen and an app ecosystem. ![]() Internet search capability, for example, was widely available from players like Yahoo!, but made faster by Google. Technology industry history is filled with examples of companies that achieved success by enhancing existing products offered by an established provider. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness” Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |