Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

They identify market opportunities, develop novel products and go out to change the world. Some companies want to change the world in one dimension: a better product or a disruptive go-to-market. There are spaces where pricing innovation is welcome, especially when there is a large, expensive incumbent.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. The result of those major disruptions? billion in 2019.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 22, 2014

Jill LePore’s New Yorker polemic “ The Disruption Machine ” attempts to debunk the incredibly popular Innovator’s Dilemma, a theory written by HBS professor Clayton Christensen. ” In his book Antifragile, Taleb expands this theory to all of human development.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In addition to expanding the vet network — Fuzzy is operational in 25 locations — his plans for the new funding include the development and launch of new product offerings, additional educational content and new member growth. “We Fuzzy live chat via its app. Image Credits: Fuzzy.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 2, 2012

In this month’s HBR, Clay Christensen and Maxwell Wessell published an article targeted to the CEOs of large companies on how to prevent disruption to their businesses. The new technologies barrier: Sometimes, startups have to develop new technologies to enter a market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

In a nutshell, Geopagos feels it is in the ideal position of being able to serve as the software enabler that can retrofit incumbents like large banks and launch the enablers like fintechs. Indeed, customers include large financial institutions, fintechs, retailers and software companies, among others.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Put simply, Melon is developing tech and fulfillment infrastructure — or the backend — to enable small and medium e-commerce merchants to “easily” sell and grow across multiple channels such as Shopify, Instagram and Amazon, and then deliver almost anywhere in the region.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

It has been a fun opportunity to disrupt everything.”. Goodles is going after the two oldest incumbents in the space, Kraft and Annie’s, to provide a healthy alternative that tackles both better taste and nutrition. In fact, the company developed more than 1,000 versions of noodles to get the right one. Gooder Foods team.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2021

Sometimes, entering the market with a different pricing model disrupts incumbents. Michelin developed a much more durable tires. The platform fee establishes a stable relationship and the usage pricing enables the customer to scale up or down as a function of their traffic which might vary throughout the year. Competition.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

It has one of the largest and most profitable banking industries in Latin America, and is among the world’s most developed financial markets. Brazil’s banking system is a massive market, and one ill-served by incumbents. Brazil is a country riven with economic contradictions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

A number of fintechs have popped up as of late aiming to disrupt the traditional model of evaluating an individual’s creditworthiness. It’s raising a $30 million Series B, led by TransUnion — one of the largest incumbents in an industry that Spring Labs is looking to shake up. Spring Labs is one of them.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Houseparty founder Ben Rubin emphasized decentralization as Web3’s central feature. We have many more Disrupt recaps to come in the next few days, so stay tuned. Successful startups will inevitably draw the attention of powerful incumbents in their industry,” he writes for TechCrunch+. In today’s Web 2.0,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cards have an estimated payments volume of $900 billion per year, and yet 95% of these transactions are being processed by local incumbents, asserts Pomelo. We’ve seen some amazing consumer products disrupt consumer banking, lending and insurance in recent years,” Curtius said in a written statement. “We

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It developed payments APIs to automate end-to-end insurance payments and to offer a buy now, pay later financing option for distribution of commissions and carrier payables, something co-founder and co-CEO Andrew Wynn, said was rather unique to commercial insurance. This is the first funding for the company that is live in 20 states.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Innovator’s Dilemma – In his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma,&# Clay Christensen talks about why industry leaders almost always fail to act when “disruptive change&# enters their business. Incumbents can’t react. If you haven’t read his book please do yourself a favor and buy it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This is a huge business, typified by incumbent behemoths like Lloyd’s of London, who in theory mitigate the risk insurance companies face when they get the formula wrong. “The industry hasn’t updated,” he said. “It’s the classic innovator’s dilemma.” That can be a truly life changing thing.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Reber knows a thing or two about software disrupting legacy productivity software — he is the co-founder and CEO of presentation software startup Pitch and the former CEO and founder of Microsoft-acquired Wunderlist — and notably he is joining Rows’ Advisory Board along with the investment. ” release, he added.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Goodwater Capital, Kairos Angels and Bridge Partners also participated in the Series A round in addition to angels such as Joe Schmidt IV , vice president of business development at insurtech Ethos and former investor at Accel and Kyle Nakatsuji , founder and CEO of auto insurance startup Clearcover (and also a former VC).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. They incumbents might provide terrible products or services that you think you can better. I can’t tell you how incumbents will act and who else will choose to compete fiercely with us.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 21, 2021

Another example is Stone, a Brazilian fin-tech unicorn started in 2012, which disrupted the incumbents’ sales strategy by creating a hub-and-spoke model that deployed a passionate salesforce of “Stone Warriors” throughout the country. Putting it all together Quality beats quantity when it comes to launching.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. Indeed, rape kits donated by another private manufacturer were reportedly used in April 2020 in Monterey County, California, under a temporary process developed for the pandemic. “I Detractors like North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein call them “ dirty scammers. ”

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Previously relegated to underground communities and rave culture, drugs like ketamine, MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) and psilocybin are now being studied to develop therapies to treat everything from PTSD to cluster headaches. We are most excited by drug developers. “Today, there are 400+ ketamine clinics in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Stay tuned as my colleagues and I parse the developments. And on the distant horizon, TechCrunch Disrupt will return to San Francisco on October 18. Some affected founders are pushing the narrative that incumbent banks lobbied the RBI to reach a decision favorable to them.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

This is particularly interesting because many of the existing corporate card players often point to Concur as an incumbent that they are trying to replace. Linus Foundation announces the OpenWallet Foundation to develop the interoperable digital wallets. These companies, of course, join a plethora of others in the U.S. xoxoxo Mary Ann.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 23, 2013

It’s the company that pursues an incumbent with faster, better or cheaper solution and in particular a solution that cannibalizes the incumbent’s business model typically because of a lower cost structure. While Google did develop a better ranking algo, Google also had a fundamental cost advantage. When Last Mover is Challenged.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

It’s been on the lips of a growing number of investors on the hunt for disruptive opportunities blockchain-based technologies can offer. Blockchain is at its most powerfully disruptive when it supplies the missing link. can repair the attention-driven digital economy. What’s your web3 strategy?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

In announcing the deal, they said: “DeFi-enabled B2B payment networks that are on chain can unlock transformative working capital efficiencies, and make financial services more fair and open, especially in developing markets like LATAM.”. In particular, he said Paystand has experienced over 700% revenue growth in the last three years.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In-depth market research and analysis is necessary for startups to identify opportunities, develop strategies to take advantage of those opportunities, and then execute. Relying on data to inform your product development, go-to-market and even marketing strategies is the opposite of the product-out approach. Direct competitors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Nigel Verdon, co-founder and CEO of Railsbank, tells me the injection of capital will be used to continue expanding the fintech’s global footprint and for further product development. This will include the launch of “credit cards as a service” in the U.S. and Europe and helps protect the reputation of the fintech industry.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

Today’s digital e-commerce successes aren’t merely developing strategies to expand beyond borders as quickly as possible – they are a new generation of firms that are “born online” and later build out physical spaces as they grow.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The emergence of generative AI, cloud computing, and new spatial platforms is poised to disrupt 3D creation end-to-end. Before the 2010s, most studios developed their own internal engines to build their games. Brief History Of Game Engines Humans have always desired to construct and explore worlds of our own imagination.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 18, 2017

Would Google acquire Salesforce, and in one fell swoop, add another $8B in annual revenue, add an enormous enterprise salesforce, and develop a global leading software business? Salesforce might be less of a traditional business, but the impact to the software world would be just as disruptive.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Embedded finance — where financial services companies and others bring in different kinds of fintech technology by way of APIs to enhance their own offerings with more data and functionality — remains a growing opportunity, both to help fuel new business and to help incumbents get up to speed with their disruptors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I was given a copy at TechCrunch Disrupt. So, to maximize profits and minimize costs, a startup should prohibit competitors from developing. Idea 2: Disruption is the wrong mind-set. Today’s mantra of disrupting industries focuses startups on existing competitive markets. But, competition increases costs.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 9, 2016

Which are the ripest areas for startups to disrupt using machine learning? We are just beginning to see the advent of predictive lead scoring tools for sales development representatives. But to get there requires building an enormous customer base with a proprietary data set, that none of the incumbents can replicate or proxy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

million of Series A investment, led by Integrated Capital, to continue developing its line of healthier food brands. Fugman said a multibillion market like that “gets us excited to have this kind of landscape for disruption.” Food and beverage startup The Naked Market bagged $27.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

There are many ways of spinning up a startup, but it takes a particularly brave set of founders to take on a deeply entrenched industry with a small number of incumbents who have the market all sown up. We believe the latter, in particular, will really disrupt the market. Image Credits: Haje Kamps for a Bolt teardown ).

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