Do you really want the people building your bridges to have the same attitude as a FB executive? Move fast and break things indeed.
It's really not at all clear that entrepreneurial value creation is anything other than finding ways to bilk people out of money while the sciences and technical arts have a long tradition of slow methodical work that leads to transformations in the underlying substrate of society.
Operationalizing these techniques is important, but let's say you trust in markets to take obvious opportunities and run with them. The entrepreneurs are essentially interchangeable parts, one of them will win. Much like how little we care about whether one news organization is an hour ahead of another, do we care that one company is slightly faster than another at cornering the market? Not really, except as sport.
It's really not at all clear that entrepreneurial value creation is anything other than finding ways to bilk people out of money while the sciences and technical arts have a long tradition of slow methodical work that leads to transformations in the underlying substrate of society.
Operationalizing these techniques is important, but let's say you trust in markets to take obvious opportunities and run with them. The entrepreneurs are essentially interchangeable parts, one of them will win. Much like how little we care about whether one news organization is an hour ahead of another, do we care that one company is slightly faster than another at cornering the market? Not really, except as sport.