Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Succession Self-aware Storytelling 65

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Recently, a “white space” brainstorm yielded a clever new idea for marketing, to cobble together a system that could combine customer-behavior insights gained through email, social media, pay-per-click marketing, and other sources.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Major organizational changes, covering everything from recruiting and branding to regulatory approvals and marketing, happened in rapid succession, with a hard deadline of 12 months to get it all done for the IPO — and 18 months from the IPO until our full separation from GE. What values drove them? What made them proud?

Management 11

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Thomson Reuters’ 2013 ranking of the world’s top 100 innovators doesn’t include a single company from China. Over the last two months, we conducted workshops for three groups of senior executives from some of China’s largest state-owned enterprises. and 1.2%, respectively, versus 20.0% in the case of, say, Japan.

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8