Episode · This Week in Startups · 2019-11-19
Books mentioned on E1002: Wealthfront CEO & Co-founder Andy Rachleff on hitting escape velocity at Wealthfront, pioneering "self-driving money" for consumers, shares insights on product-building in 1980's vs. today, best investor attributes, & the future of NextGen ba
1:08 Jason intros Andy Rachleff 2:20 Where is Wealthfront at currently? 4:44 How are traditional money managers allowed to get away with so much?
Andy Rachleff discussed The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Innovator's Dilemma
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen is a foundational business and management text that explains why successful companies often fail when faced with disruptive technological shifts.
Discussed“because it's an economic and that creates what's known as an innovators dilemma which was the title of clays first book if you if you go after the disrupter you kill your own economics and destroy yourself”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Lean Startup
“you know I think that Scott cook the founder of into it's the best product person I've ever met really and I thought Steve Blank was an amazing product person who basically developed a philosophy on which Eric Ries based his book”