Topic: Bitcoin still is an experiment:The First Guy Through the Wall Always Gets Bloody (Read 297 times)

Bitcoin still is an experiment:

The First Guy Through the Wall Always Gets Bloody....

“I know you’ve taken it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall — he always gets bloody. Always. It’s the threat of not just the way of doing business, but in their minds, it’s threatening the game. But really what it’s threatening is their livelihoods.It’s threatening their jobs. It’s threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it’s the government or a way of doing business or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins — have their hands on the switch — they go batshit crazy. Anyone who is not tearing their team right now and rebuilding it, using your model, they’re dinosaurs”
— Boston Red Sox owner John Henry from the movie Moneyball.

The quote above is from the highly recommended movie ‘Moneyball’ about Oakland Athletics manager Billy Beane.

Quote on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/Jjf1O4jMqeM?t=2m34s

"Building Something New is easier than Changing Something Old.
So many companies are on the brink of extinction. The worse thing is that they know they are. Even with this, institutionalised by bureacracy, politics and nest feathering in order to maintain the status quo and safeguard their positions in the organisation they block change and they block innovators and change agents.
The worst of them do this in full knowledge that they will sink their own ship and sometimes contribute to sinking entire industries."
"I love this (almost entirely) true story. The reason I love it is that it exposes the real issues blocking business transformation and even industry transformation. "

https://medium.com/thethursdaythought/the-first-guy-through-the-wall-always-gets-bloody-873fcf7eb832