Former Apple CEO John Sculley calls
Tesla's Elon Musk, Google's Larry Page, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg three examples of "adaptive innovators." He calls Zuckerberg brilliant for
acquiring Whatsapp, a four-year old startup with 560 million users and no revenue, for $19 billion. It was part of a "brilliant" strategy to pivot toward mobile.
Sculley points out that
Facebook almost missed the mobile evolution, and calls what happened at Facebook during the past three years an example of a "remarkable adaptive innovator" story of a public company.Read the whole story at The Street »
