Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, doesn’t like the word “cannibalisation” because it’s zero sum. It implies that you’re the guy doing the eating or being eaten. He says being in business is not like playing a sport or being in warfare. It’s more like music, it’s more like art. It’s not a zero sum game. […]
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Love vs Lock In
Economists love to talk about “scarcity” and the fact that we live in a world of limited resources. However, in the digital world this need not necessarily be the case. Phil Libin of Evernote is of the view that if you’re in a traditional industry like minerals extraction or transportation, then customers will either go […]
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Free Services vs Privacy Online
Big data (combined with data analytics and machine learning) offers exciting opportunities to decipher patterns and solve complex problems more quickly and cheaply than ever before, but it also has the potential to infringe the privacy of individual users. Looking at a company like Evernote, which uses a freemium business model to help tens of millions of people be more productive […]
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Libin’s Law
(Source: Techworld) Phil Libin, founder and CEO of Evernote, was one of the guest speakers during Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford which was hosted at Oxford’s Said Business School a fortnight ago. As part of the conference there was a debate held at the Oxford Union, the world’s oldest debating society, the motion being “This […]