Andy Kessler is coming out with a new book today, called Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs, which I wholeheartedly recommend. It's billed as "rules for entrepreneurs," but it's more than your typical "rules" book, in that it really discusses many of the key underlying themes we talk about here on Techdirt all the time: things about abundance and scarcity, value vs. price, why zero marginal cost matters, the importance of "free," the nature of disruptive innovation and how value is often created in the tearing down of old monopolistic business models.
If you haven't read Andy's previous books, well, you should. But, this latest is typical Andy: packed full of thought-provoking insights, but done in a nice, easy (and quick) to read conversational manner. Like all of his books, this one made me stop and say "huh, I never quite thought of it that way... but that's exactly right" many times..
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Wow fantastic interview - thanks! :-)
Posted by: Chris Khoo | February 08, 2011 at 03:49 PM
great interview - as a big fan of your books, I've read many of the stories you recount in this interview, but it is great to hear you tell them via video! Really enjoyed it. Thanks, Andy, and thanks Andrew for getting them out of you.
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