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Cover of The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton Christensen · 1997
Mentioned 34 times across 14 podcasts · 2019–2026
Mention timeline34 mentions
20192026
Where it's mentioned
2026
PM Talks S3E11: Hard Days Make for Soft Landings
A Productive Conversation · Nov 2026
“even though he wrote about the innovator's dilemma and the Jobs to be done theor all these marking books”
The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349
This Week in Startups · Oct 2026
“There's a book written about this. It's called The Innovator's Crisis. Oh wait, no, it's innovators dilemma”
PM Talks S3E9: What Problem Does This Actually Solve?
A Productive Conversation · Sep 2026
“Clayton Christensen, a number I think it was in the innovator's dilemma”
The Jolts That Make Us Quit — and the Ones Worth Ignoring (with Anthony Klotz)
A Productive Conversation · Aug 2026
“Clayton Christensen, you know, Innovator's Dilemma, you talk about him there”
TIP838: Google, Reddit, Amazon – Are Our Biggest Winners Still a Buy? w/ Daniel Mahncke & Shawn O’Malley
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network · Aug 2026
“For anyone who's read The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. I think the semiconductor industry is literally the example that they use of The fastest changing industry”
I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch
My First Million · Jul 2026
“But if you don't deeply understand innovators dilemma And this other book, Innovator Solution. It's like this great tandem”
Can a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald)
EconTalk · Jun 2026
“it relates to Clayton Christensen in the innovator's dilemma, which you've talked about recently on the program”
NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
How I Built This with Guy Raz · May 2026
“I read that you stumbled upon this book by Christian Claytonson. Mm-hmm. Uh Claire Cristenson, for forgive me, he's no longer alive. Harvard School Professor called the innovator syllable. Yeah. Very important book”
The Stock Picking Philosophy to Find the Next Amazon with Motley Fool's David Gardner
Masters in Business · Apr 2026
“one of my heroes is Clayton Christensen who wrote The Innovators Dilemma”
The Man Who Built NVIDIA (with Stephen Witt)
EconTalk · Apr 2026
“uh my take on that the innovators dilemma is is a little bit different”
Are Brain-Computer Interfaces Actually Ready for Humans?
This Week in Startups · Mar 2026
“Yeah, and there's a book written about this, something about a dilemma and people who make change, I think. Yeah, maybe people have heard about it. Innovators dilemma”
BONUS: Bill Gurley on Investing Early in Tech Disruptors & 'Runnin' Down a Dream'
Masters in Business · Mar 2026
“And there's great books like The Innovator's Dilemma that talk about why”
AI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco president on the AI revolution | Jeetu Patel
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Feb 2026
“The Bible in tech in my mind is innovators dilemma. an innovative solution from Clayton Christensen”
Seiko, Swatch, and the Swiss Watch Industry (with Aled Maclean-Jones)
EconTalk · Feb 2026
“The innovator's dilemma and he makes the point that a lot of times your competitor is not a better version of what you do it's a radically different version”
2025
Bill Gurley - The Gift and The Curse of Staying Private
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jun 2025
“I think a lot of what we read in Crossing the Chasm or The Innovator's Dilemma, the big companies are supposed to be slow to mobile, slow to the internet”
#376 Jensen Huang: Founder of Nvidia
Founders · Jan 2025
“one of Jensen's favorite favorite books. is the innovator's dilemma. One of the main takeaways he took from reading the book is that Y the threat is actually gonna come from the low end of the market”
2024
Andrew Homan & Chris Miller - Redefining Semiconductor Progress - [Invest Like the Best, EP.396]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Nov 2024
“I know that's the reason I've read the Innovator's Dilemma like everybody else”
Jimmy Carr: "I Was Laughing & Crying When He Died". Jimmy Opens Up About Being Cancelled & How Anxiety Is The Flip Side Of Creativity!
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Apr 2024
“I read a book called The Innovator's Dilemma and it really change my mind on a few things”
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jan 2024
“Clayton Christians do stuff about the innovators to line up”
2023
#651: Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2023
“innovators dilemma, which does an amazing job of describing why startups can compete with big companies”
2022
Ooni Pizza Ovens: Darina Garland and Kristian Tapaninaho
How I Built This with Guy Raz · Nov 2022
“and this has a bit of a funny kind of reason why there's three licks. on an Ouni. The fourth leg would have taken it over ten kilograms. Oh yeah,'cause it's got it's a tripod, right? It's three legs under under it. Yeah. It's a tripod, yeah. And I mean turns out that it makes a lot of sense of of course for stability to do that. Yeah. Alright, so you get this fabrication place in Finland to start making them. You've got the cash to do it. And Uh and you've gotta fulfill those orders. A”
How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken Norton, Ex-Google
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jul 2022
“Innovator's Dilemma. It's probably my number one favorite book for for product managers and product leaders”
Sanchan Saxena (VP of Product at Coinbase) on the inside story of how Airbnb made it through Covid; what he’s learned from Brian Chesky, Brian Armstrong, and Kevin Systrom; much more
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jul 2022
“And the other thing I would say the innovator's dilemma, those are two of my favorite books”
Strategy Session Live!: How can a start-up beat a Goliath? What gets top talent to stay put? How do you keep multiple stakeholders happy?
Masters of Scale · Jun 2022
“You get, you know, the classic Clay Kirchenson innovators dilemma, which is the battlefield is changing”
2021
7 Powers with Hamilton Helmer
Acquired · Dec 2021
“Hamilton, listeners who have read The Innovator's Dilemma, this is going to sound vaguely familiar”
#550: Andrew Chen — Metaverse, Metrics, and Meerkats
The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2021
“before Lean Startup And before Innovator's Dilemma”
Henrique Dubugras - Building the Financial Center of Gravity – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 35]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · May 2021
“I was Pedro and I were big fans of Innovator Dilemma and Usually you find either highly competitive, high margin markets or Super low margin”
#180 Jeff Bezos (Invention of a Global Empire)
Founders · May 2021
“Leading senior executives in discussion of on books. Like Clayton Christian's The Innovators Dilemma”
Special: Sequoia Capital's Investment Playbook (with Alfred Lin)
Acquired · Feb 2021
“in in innovator's dilemma, they talk about all the low margin stuff”
Zack Fuss – Breaking Down the Food Ecosystem – [Invest Like the Best, EP.208]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jan 2021
“Clayton Christensen, right, is widely recognized. For his work on the innovators dilemma”
2020
#432: Books I've Loved — Kevin Kelly
The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2020
“Called The Innovator's Dilemma by Clay Christensen is kinda famous now”
The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time
Acquired · Mar 2020
“read The Innovator's Dilemma”
2019
#60 Yvon Chouinard: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years
Founders · Feb 2019
“That creates a better product than its existing best selling product. I mean it's”
#360: Caterina Fake — The Outsider Who Built Giants
The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2019
“I've read in the doing homework for this interview that you've recommended”