Corporate America Hasn’t Been Disrupted
I think there is a bit of cognitive dissonance in the tech community about "disruption" versus "big companies." Technology, in general, makes it easier to scale companies to large sizes, and "disruption" often involves using technology to enter an existing industry that is dominated by small, inefficient companies.<p>A great example is Uber. Uber is making the taxi market a lot more efficient, but it's also well on the path to replacing a bunch of little local taxi companies with a big national one. That's the power of technology: it pushes out the point on the curve where diseconomies of scale cancel out economies of scale. Technology enables consolidation. Other good examples are the dry cleaning and food delivery startups.<p>It's also not surprising that once an industry has been "disrupted" it takes a lot to push out the incumbent. Small businesses are generally inefficient and prone to failure. Large corporations are efficient and diversified in comparison. A new mom & pop coffee shop might easily out-compete the old mom & pop coffee shop across the street, but they can't offer the scale and uniformity of a Starbucks. When big corporations die, it's either because of their own mistakes, or some seismic market or technological shift (e.g. Kodak).