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The Innovation Stack

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What’s it about?

How do you convince a bank to process payments for a tiny glassblowing studio? You don't. You build a new system from scratch—an Innovation Stack of interlocking inventions that creates an unbreakable moat.

You’ll learn

  • Innovation is a stack, not a single idea
  • Impossible problems signal true innovation
  • Copying is okay; the stack is hard to copy
  • Follow the cascade of problems, not a plan