The Intelligent Blockchain Investor

The Blockchain Investors Dilemma

James Hinton
5 min readJan 6, 2022

If you’ve ever read the book ‘The Innovators Dilemma’, you’ll immediately connect with this article. If you haven’t, you absolutely should! It’s been listed as one of the most influential business books of all time, and cited by luminaries such as Steve Jobs.

Innovation and The Innovators

Innovation is messy. It doesn’t follow a linear path. At the start it often doesn’t make sense to vast majority of people. It can seem crazy, wild and above all, risky.

Large organisations spend billions of dollars training their teams, contractors, third-party suppliers and partners on following a particular system and then along comes an innovator who says:

“Let’s throw this all out and do it differently”

How would you react?

How would your organisation react when the outcome seems…ill defined. Vaguely articulated. More like a concept than an actual 5 step plan?

Turns out most organisations don’t really do that well. They either:

  1. Completely disregard the innovation, forcing the innovators to go elsewhere
  2. Try to shoehorn the innovation into their existing systems and…

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James Hinton

Passionate algorithmic trader and Cyber Security expert. Love developing helpful content.