The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future (27 page)

GEnie,
60

R&D,
84

Germany,
173

Gerstner, Lou,
133
–34

Global Center for Digital Business Transformation,
80
–81

Golden, David,
143

Google,
3
,
37
,
39
,
138
–39,
154
,
172
,
176
,
192

diversity problem,
102

search,
150

self-driving car and,
81

Gore, Al,
xiv
,
171

GPS navigation,
82
,
147
,
148

Gretzky, Wayne,
87

H&R Block,
59

Habitat for Humanity,
109

Haig, Al,
104

Hambrecht & Quist (H&Q),
15
,
21
,
35
,
143

Hastings, Reed,
155

HBO,
119
–20,
128
,
134

healthcare,
5
,
44
–46,
190

barriers to entry and,
70

biomedical R&D,
173

Case and Revolution Health,
74

disease mismanagement,
45
–46

fitness trackers,
45

health data analysis,
46

medical and biotech corridor,
90

misdiagnosis and,
44

outdated systems and,
44

startups,
92

startups, locations of,
95

tracking epidemics,
46

Helsinki, Finland,
182

Hewlett-Packard (HP),
2

Holden, Christopher,
67

Home Music Store,
15
–16,
72

Horowitz, Ben,
115

hotel industry,
192

IBM,
2
,
46
,
57
–58,
69
,
73
,
92
,
133

Idea Village,
101

Immelt, Jeff,
158

immigration,
156
,
176
–79,
194

Canadian Start-Up Visa Program,
181

H-1B visa program,
177
–78

Startup Visa program proposal,
178

impact investing,
106
–13,
188

Case Foundation story,
109
–11

convergence and,
113

National Advisory Board,
111

Revolution Foods,
111
–13

rise of,
107
–9

size of,
113

India,
91
,
161
,
178

Snapdeal and,
177

Indiegogo,
157

Innovators, The
(Isaacson),
xiii

Innovator’s Dilemma, The
(Christensen),
85

Instacart,
179

Instagram,
4
,
39

Intel Corporation,
150

Internet.
See also
First Wave; Second Wave; Third Wave

AOL’s importance to,
38
–39

broadband,
118

cybersecurity and,
151
–52

democratization of,
xiv

early connection costs,
2

early use,
2
–3

“the eternal September,”
xiv

global connectivity,
3

Gore and,
xiv

government role in,
149
–52

net neutrality rules,
119

percentage of Americans online (1985),
xiii

public access to,
xiv

regulation of,
159
–60

search engines,
3
,
150

service providers,
xiv

social networks,
xiii

worth of economic activity,
149
–50

Internet of Everything,
5
,
43
,
187
–88,
191

Internet of Things,
151
–52,
168
–69

Isaacson, Walter,
xi
–xv,
62
,
70

Ive, Jonathan,
71

Jarrett, Valerie,
159
,
160

Jobs, Steve,
24
,
70
–72,
85
,
142

John Deere,
82

Johnson, Earvin “Magic,”
155

Johnson & Johnson,
81

Joswiak, Greg,
70

Kaeser, Joe,
140

Kartsotis, Tom,
94

Kauffman Foundation,
92
,
111
,
176

Kay, Alan,
25

Kenney, Jason,
181

Kenya,
183

Kesmai,
67

Khan Academy,
49

Kickboard,
99
–100

Kickstarter,
94
,
108
,
157

Kimsey, Jim,
20
–21,
27
–29,
33
,
38
,
59

Klain, Ron,
171

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB),
21
,
156

Kobie, Nicole,
52
–53

Kodak,
86

Kullman, Ellen,
86

Leonsis, Ted,
34
–36,
65
,
143

Lerer, Kenny,
124
,
125

Levin, Jerry,
xii
,
120
–22,
129
–30,
131
,
132
,
133
,
141

Logan, Don,
134
–35

London,
103
,
182

as top city for crowdfunding,
182

Luce, Henry,
117

MacHugh, Will,
53

Malone, John,
64

Mandela, Nelson,
198

Marx, Groucho,
165
–66

Massachusetts,
90

McKinsey report on pro-innovation policies,
156

Medbery, Jen,
99
–100

Microsoft,
2
,
56
,
60
–66

acquisitions of competitors,
62
–64

AOL acquisition try,
60
–66

MSN and,
63
,
64
,
65
,
66
,
67

Windows
95
,
65

millennial generation,
54
,
107
–8

Mitchell, Kate,
160

mobile apps,
3
,
4
,
43
,
69
–70,
95

mobile devices,
3

modems,
2
,
17
–18,
42
,
58
,
65

Monsanto,
84

MOOCs (massive open online courses),
75
–76

Mossberg, Walt,
37

Motley Fool, The,
36

Moviefone,
36

MP3 players,
70

Murdoch, Rupert,
67
,
128
,
142

Musk, Elon,
68
,
176

Napster,
15
,
140

NASA,
173

Nashville, Tennessee,
94
,
95

National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (NACIE),
155

National Institutes of Health,
173

National Science Foundation,
173

Netflix,
155

Netscape,
114
–15

New Line Cinema,
128

New Orleans, Louisiana,
90
,
98
–101

Hurricane Katrina and,
98
–99

startups in, statistics,
101

News Corp,
67
,
128

New York City,
98

New York State,
90

Nigeria,
183

Nixon, Richard M.,
170

Nooyi, Indra,
85
–86

Obama, Barack,
153
,
155
–56,
160

Ebola outbreak (2014) and,
170
–71

“Obama’s stealth startup,”
153

online gaming,
16
–18

online music industry,
70
–72

Page, Larry,
150

Park, Todd,
154

Parsons, Dick,
132
–35,
141

partnerships,
5

African proverb and,
69

AOL and,
xii
–xiii,
56
,
62
,
72
–75

Apple and,
23
–29,
71
–72

bolstering the internal team,
73
–74

Catch-22 for,
75

credibility challenge and,
72
–76

Second Wave and,
75

for the Third Wave,
69
–76,
191
,
193

Partpic,
96
–97

Patagonia,
108

Pathfinder,
122

PayPal,
79

Pear Deck,
47
–48

PepsiCo,
85
–86

perseverance,
78
–79

Pfund, Nancy,
112
–13

Picasso, Pablo,
70

Pittman, Bob,
131
–32

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
95

Pixar,
142

Pizza Hut,
13
–14,
185

PlanetOut,
36
–37

Plank, Kevin,
155

policy strategy,
5
,
76
–78

regulated industries and,
76
–77

POP Biotechnologies,
92

Powell, Colin,
104
–5

PowerUP,
109

President’s Council on Jobs and Competiveness (Jobs Council),
155
–61

Procter & Gamble (P&G),
12
–13

Prodigy,
37
,
56
–57,
58
–59,
73

Qualcomm,
150

Quantum Computer Services,
20
–26

AOL launch and rollout,
30
–33

Apple partnership,
23
–29

Commodore and,
22
–23

IBM and,
23
,
29

idea for Internet portal,
28
–29,
30

launching of,
22

PC-Link,
23
,
29

Q-Link,
23
,
29

R&D,
84

government-funded,
147
,
172
–74

Kullman force-out and,
86

managing disruption and,
81

100 Award,
147

Raines, Frank,
104

Ravikant, Naval,
160

Reddit,
xiii

Redgate Communications,
34
–36

Revolution,
54
,
111
,
143
–44,
171

Revolution Foods,
111
–13

Revolution Health,
74
–75

“Revolution Starts Now, The” (Earle),
144

Richmond, Kristin Groos,
111
–12

“rise of the rest,”
94
–105,
194

challenges for,
102
–5

diversity of opportunity and,
101
–2

industry-specific expertise and,
95
–98

New Orleans,
90
,
98
–101

pitch competition, Atlanta,
96

startup location diversity,
91
–98,
188

valuation gap in startup location,
103

venture capital and,
93
–98,
103

Roberts, Brian,
140

robotics technology,
95

Roosevelt, Theodore,
53

“man in the arena” speech,
198
–99

Ross, Steve,
117

Rotenberg, Marc,
152

Salesforce,
103

Samuelsohn, Darren,
168
–69

Sandberg, Sheryl,
156

San Francisco, California,
98

Sarbanes-Oxley legislation,
157

Sasson, Steven,
86

Savage, Tige,
143

Schiller, Phil,
71

Sears,
57

Second Wave,
xv
,
3
–4,
42
,
87
,
179

American dominance and,
184

apps and success in,
69
–70

characteristics of,
43

dorm-inspired apps,
5

edtech and,
47

location of entrepreneurs and,
91
,
95

market risk of,
77

partnerships not needed,
75

peaking of,
43

success stories,
96

technology focus of,
95

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),
77
,
175

self-driving car,
76
,
81
–82,
190

Seriff, Marc,
15
–16,
20
,
21
,
27
,
29
,
33

Shackleton, Ernest,
186

Shazam,
97

Shinola,
94

Shockley, William,
104

Siemens,
84
,
140

Silicon Valley,
6
,
15
,
43
,
90
,
95
,
105
,
114
–15,
186
,
188

culture of innovation,
43

Cupertino, Case, and Apple,
23
–26

diversity problem,
102

foreign-born company founders,
176

government and,
150
–51