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Please remember that in our industry “disrupt” means “fuck up”. As in “Uber fucked up (disrupted) the transportation service industry.” Just something to keep in mind before getting all disruptive.

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If we could take whatever the equivalent of taxis is in power generation and food production and turn them into the equivalent of Ubers, I think that would be overall good.

Uber’s not perfect, but as a consumer, they’re way better than what was there before.

We can make poor people deliver fuel cells to wealthy people on demand via an app, as independent contractors to avoid dealing with the worn out old ones that are no longer able to deliver fuel cells to the wealthy at an optimal rate.

I think it's just a hip new buzzword, like "disrupt the nuclear family", "disrupt white supremacy" etc

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