Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

What does JLabs CEO Judy Estrin mean by "we need innovation around how we think about innovation"?

14 Oct 2022 · 1 min

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In a YouTube interview, the host asks JLabs CEO Judy Estrin to elaborate on her Medium article “Out of Whack,” where she argues that the tech industry needs "innovation around how we think about innovation." The host expands on this by describing the prevailing cultural values in digital technology: a focus on dominance, relentless disruption, and the elimination of all friction to achieve rapid, massive scale. This mindset prioritizes growth and market capture over responsibility for those affected by disruption, reducing products to tools for maximizing usage rather than fostering sustainable, ethical innovation.

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In your recent Medium article, Out of Whack, you said that we need innovation around how we think about innovation. Could you expand on what you meant by that statement? If you actually look at what is going on in digital technology, I would argue that the core values are dominance, disruption, and eliminating all friction in order to pull more and more. So it's basically scale at speed, Get as big as possible, as fast as possible to dominate, disrupt without having any responsibility for who you disrupt, and remove all friction so that you can dominate and actually make it as easy as possible for people to use more and more of your product. It's not just about funding. It's not— it's about those core cultural values.