(2010-09-23) Blank Fairchild Pivot Disruptive

Steve Blank on the amazing Pivot that Fairchild Semiconductor went through to embrace its own Disruptive Innovation of IntegratedCircuits, even at the cost of losing its head of Sales. The VP of sales’ incentives led him to stifle any innovation that got in the way of selling as much of the current technology as he could – even if it meant killing the future of the company. Luckily for Fairchild and the future of the semiconductor and computer business, he quit when his compensation plan was changed.