Apr 9, 2021
R “Ray” Wang is the Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst of
Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc., a research and
advisory firm which studies disruptive business and exponential
technology trends.
You very likely have heard of Ray before. He is active on social
media (follow him here). He is also frequently
interviewed in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Fox
Business News, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Cheddar, CGTN, Tech Crunch,
ZDNet, Forbes, and Fortune.
Ray is the co-host and co-founder of the widely watched
DisrupTV, a weekly enterprise tech and leadership webcast that
averages 50,000 views per episode. He’s also the author of the
popular business strategy and technology blog “A Software Insider’s
Point of View”. Since 2005, Ray has delivered hundreds of live and
virtual keynotes around the world that are inspiring and legendary.
Wang has spoken at almost every major tech related conference,
including Salesforce’s Dreamforce, Adobe Summit, IBM Think, HR Tech
Conference, Microsoft’s Conferences, Google Next, and the sessions
at Davos for various clients.
Ray is a great leader, evidenced by the people he has attracted
to his firm. I know many of his team and can say for a fact that
they are people who can do just about anything they want (which
means they are in a position to pick their boss). Ray is also an
entrepreneur, and in this OODAcast provides context anyone thinking
of starting out on their own should consider. One of many anecdotes
he provided was an insightful recap of a conversation he had with
his then boss at Forrester Research, George Forrester Colony, which
made it clear to Ray that he faced a choice. He could work at a
place that wanted to motivate him to be as average as possible or
he could go out on his own and create his future himself.
Ray is one of the most prolific writers and thinkers in this
space, which includes bestselling books. His 2015 “Disrupting
Digital Business” provided insights into ways businesses could
create authentic, trustable experiences for clients and optimal
experiences for employees in an age where the economy focuses less
on products and services and more on experiences and outcomes. We
also ask Ray for early context on his latest book, “Everybody Wants
to Rule The World”, which brings new lessons on surviving and
thriving in a world of digital giants like Amazon, Google and
Facebook. The book may help you steer your business to success in
an age where many will be crushed by the powerful forces unleashed
by large firms like these.
Why read this book? Because if you don’t, you may well be
crushed. Imagine the incredibly tech savvy Dominos Pizza, who
really should be lauded for their embracing new technologies and
disrupting the pizza business through technology. But now are in
total danger of being crushed by an amazing, but previously
unforseen model, which enables firms by companies that don’t have
stores, that don’t sell pizzas, and don’t have their own drivers,
but that can deliver. The food aggregators, like postmates ,
Doordash etc, don’t have to invest the capital to make pizza in
order to make money from the transaction. This is just one of many
examples, Ray also tells us how to crush LG and Samsung, for
example, using the new approaches to platform based dynamics.
We ask Ray for his insights on many other tech topics, including
quantum computing, quantum security (he says it is like running a
bulldozer over a thatch hut), Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies.
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