<h3>Podcaster Alex Kantrowitz discusses how big tech companies are able to keep reinventing themselves and succeeding.</h3>
<p>No matter the circumstances and economic outlook, tech’s ‘big five’ — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft — somehow emerge from every disruptive event stronger.</p>
<p>Alex Kantrowitz, founder of the Big Technology Podcast, has written a new book called ‘Always Day One’ that explains why.</p>
<p>In it, he explains how the largest technology companies have mastered the art of reinventing themselves through cultures that optimise for tomorrow&#8217;s demand, not today&#8217;s legacy products, and make use of cutting-edge AI to run their operations on autopilot.</p>
<p>Alex also pointed out that the most successful companies don’t rest on their laurels when it comes to developing new ideas, “last century, the average company lasted on the S&#038;P for 75 years. It basically took one good idea to spend a lifetime on the S&#038;P. Now, that’s 15 years. You need three, three-and-a-half ideas to stay on the S&#038;P 500 for as long as you used to.”</p>
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<p>Alex Kantrowitz, founder of the Big Technology Podcast, was in conversation with VICE’s Matthew Champion on the <a href="https://websummit.com/tracks/book-summit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Book Summit stage</a> at Web Summit 2022.</p>
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