Jay Samit

To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.

American Businessman

Brock Pierce

The VC industry has benefited greatly from technology and the Internet, so I see how the VC industry is going to get disintermediated, decentralized, disrupted, so I can sit around and wait for someone to disrupt ourselves, or we can choose to disrupt or cannibalize ourselves.

Daniel Tosh

I never want to cannibalize my act, and I'm really excited that I am going to be able to perform new material. I'm not a huge fan of repeating jokes, and I don't really do any of my old material from old stand-up acts.

American Comedian

Therese Fowler

No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might usefully cannibalize an earlier effort for something new.

American Author

Safra A. Catz

Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.

American Businesswoman

Tim Cook

I'd rather Apple cannibalize Apple than somebody else cannibalize Apple.

Highlights creativity in using available resources to solve problems when new ones aren't available.

Resourcefulness

Clarifies that 'cannibalize' in this context doesn't imply destruction but rather repurposing.

Not Destructive

Emphasizes 'cannibalize' as a practical, often temporary, fix when other options aren't possible.

Practical Solution

Explains that the word is used when a company competes against its own products.

Competition Within

Addresses the dilemma companies face when introducing new products that may affect existing ones.

Innovation Risk

Implies the need for strategic planning to mitigate negative impacts on current products.

Strategy Awareness

Indicates extreme circumstances where survival is at stake leading to this behavior.

Survival Context

Mentions that such acts are often morally and culturally unacceptable in society.

Cultural Taboo

Refers to specific historical situations where cannibalism has been documented.

Historical Examples

 will see low-cost niche voice operators because it is extremely difficult for the mobile operators to cannibalize their own existing high revenues some may be able to do it but not all of them and if you look at companies like locale

Technology makes way for...

 here's the deal fellas the challenge for tonight we're going to cannibalize the vehicles in some way shape or form to take things with us that will make us more comfortable to camp take anything

Car Cannibals PIPE Dirty...

 And since adult squid tend to cannibalize juveniles, soaring above the surf can help ensure these young squid will live to fly another day.

These squids can fly......

 makes sense if you want to protect your food supply but exactly why they cannibalize the dead chimp is not fully understood it

The Planet Earth...

 Or do you want to continue to cannibalize your multiple identities and privilege one identity over the other?

Cannibalize

Resourcefulness

Not Destructive

Practical Solution

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