We've seen an acceleration of this sort of
Old Guard Buys New Disruptor activity in the past couple years: Walmart / Jet; GM / Cruise; Unilever / Dollar Shave Club; GE / ServiceMax; Mars / Whistle; Albertsons / Plated.
Not exact matches
Markets were caught off
guard earlier this month when the Swiss National Bank (SNB) canceled its over three - year -
old policy pegging the exchange rate of the euro
buying 1.20 Swiss francs.
Wenger is now part of the «
Old Guard» and not many managers will play the game his way — most top managers now are
buying managers.
We
bought one of these for our
oldest son because we kept losing the
guards on other potties.
While it's perhaps not the kind of runaway success story True & Co. may have been chasing, the deal reflects a larger trend: to better secure their futures, those being disrupted — traditional
old -
guard incumbents — are increasingly
buying tech - enabled disruptors.
This belief — that Amazon was going to teach the
old guard new tricks — kept me
buying and reading and engaging.
The good news is that the
old guards are changing their antiquated ways to streamline the
buying process and cut costs.