# Innovate, Disrupt, or Die

> Discover how innovation will accelerate your business.

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## Posts
- [$5.8 Billion Spent. Zero Acquisitions. ](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/nearly-6-billion-spent-zero-acquisitions)
- [Regulation = Innovation](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/regulation-equals-innovation)
- [🎙️ The Weirdest Person in the Room is The Most Important Person](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/the-weirdest-person-in-the-room-is-the-most-important-person)
- [If AI Isn't Tearing Your Company Apart, That's a Problem](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/if-ai-isn-t-tearing-your-company-apart-that-s-a-problem)
- [You Have A 🍕Problem](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/you-have-a-pizza-problem)
- [🎙️ You Have to Compromise on Operational Excellence to Execute on Strategy](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/you-have-to-compromise-on-operational-excellence-to-execute-on-strategy)
- [This One Choice Will Determine Your Company's Future](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/this-one-choice-will-determine-your-company-s-future)
- [First to Market. First to Lose.](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/first-to-market-first-to-lose)
- [Innovation Died. AI Took its Job.](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/innovation-died-ai-took-its-job)
- [🎙️ Eric Ries Believes You Can Build an Incorruptible Company](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/eric-ries-believes-you-can-build-an-incorruptible-company): The Godfather of Lean Talks Incorruptibility
- [An Open Call for Innovators](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/an-open-call-for-innovators): Discover & Be Discovered
- [Your AI Budget Pyramid Is Upside Down](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/your-ai-budget-pyramid-is-upside-down)
- [The Disruption Worked. The Company Failed.](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/the-disruption-worked-the-company-failed)
- [🎙️ Mia Salomakhin Thinks AI Is a New Species.](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/mia-salomakhin-thinks-ai-is-a-new-species): She Might Be Right.
- [This Debt is Harder to Pay Off Than Your Student Loans](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/this-debt-is-harder-to-pay-off-than-your-student-loans)
- [The Dead Brand Pivot](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/the-dead-brand-pivot)
- [🎙️ He Ran Innovation for PayPal Out of His Backpack](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/he-ran-innovation-for-paypal-out-of-his-backpack): Mike Todasco talks innovation at Paypal
- [Starbucks Built a Better Bank](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/starbucks-built-a-better-bank): And they did it by selling shit coffee.
- [When AI Needs a Body](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/when-ai-needs-a-body): Humans as Infrastructure
- [🎙️ Why a Disability is an Innovation Superpower](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/why-a-disability-is-an-innovation-superpower): Kate Kalcevich explains how Fable approaches innovation.
- [Headcount vs. Culture: Which Predicts Innovation Capability?](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/headcount-vs-culture-which-predicts-innovation-capability)
- [When AI Calibration Becomes a Class Marker](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/when-ai-calibration-becomes-a-class-marker): The Age of Outsourced Reality: Part 4 of 4
- [🎙️ Was Clayton Christensen Right?](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/was-clayton-christensen-right): Dr. David Fried spent his career answering this question...
- [When Taste Becomes the Bottleneck](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/when-taste-becomes-the-bottleneck): The Age of Outsourced Reality: Part 3 of 4
- [When Reality Becomes the Exception Handler](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/when-reality-becomes-the-exception-handler): The Age of Outsourced Reality: Part 2 of 4
- [🎙️ Most Companies Don’t Have an Innovation Problem](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/most-companies-don-t-have-an-innovation-problem): According to Dan Keldsen, they have a handoff problem.
- [When Thinking Becomes Optional, Reality Becomes a Product](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/when-thinking-becomes-optional-reality-becomes-a-product): The Age of Outsourced Reality: Part 1 of 4
- [Venture Clienting: When “Buy” Beats “Build”](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/venture-clienting-when-buy-beats-build)
- [🎙️ Will Innovation Force Evolution?](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/will-innovation-force-evolution)
- [Legible vs. Illegible Work](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/legible-vs-illegible-work): Why incrementing is easy and inventing is not.
- [Me, Myself, and AI](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/me-myself-and-ai): The role of identity in the era of agentic AI.
- [🎙️ "What if our kids have crappy passions?"](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/what-if-our-kids-have-crappy-passions): Educator and innovator Steve Iglesias on shaping our kids' futures.
- [Case Study: VA vs. The Hyperscalers](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/case-study-va-vs-the-hyperscalers)
- [AI Isn't a Model Race. It's a Power Grab.](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/ai-isnt-a-model-race-its-a-power-grab)
- [🎙️ Podcast: Scaling a Venture Team from 0 to 40](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/podcast-scaling-a-venture-team-from-0-to-40): Learn how Michelle Pacynski built the Ulta Innovation Team from nothing.
- [People Love Arguing About Innovation](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/people-love-arguing-about-innovation)
- [The Only Innovation Pitch That Works](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/the-only-innovation-pitch-that-works): Part 2 of The Innovation Mandate in 2026
- [🎙️ Podcast: From PI to CIO](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/podcast-from-pi-to-cio): How his background as a PI prepared this innovator to run an innovation org.
- [Innovation Is the Wrong Lens for AI](https://www.innovatedisruptordie.com/p/innovation-is-the-wrong-lens-for-ai): Part 1 of The Innovation Mandate in 2026