Alex Kantrowitz

Traditional companies build flagship products and protect them all costs — that’s why they’re losing to the tech giants. Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft dominate the economy by reinventing constantly: They build the future while their competitors obsess over the past. How do they do it? Their secret lies in developing a counterintuitive leadership framework that strips away unnecessary corporate interference and encourages the free flow of ideas. In Always Day One, investigative tech reporter Alex Kantrowitz explores how Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, run the world’s most powerful companies— redefining how we work and lead to grow more dominant at the stage when most big companies begin to fail.

With exhaustive research spanning years, Kantrowitz reveals how an obsession with reinvention lies at the heart of these innovative companies. Business today is unpredictable and rapidly changing. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and cloud computing, companies are able to create and release new products in a blink of an eye. As a result, challenge is constant, and no advantage is safe, says Kantrowitz. But those same technological advances offer a path forward—allowing us to create swiftly, and at a much lower cost. And while some of these tools, like machine-learning, are still in their infancy, they will soon become inevitable. In his sharp reporting, Kantrowitz shows us that by embracing these technologies now, along with a reinvention-focused mindset, we can create the types of cultures that fuel growth and innovation.

Kantrowitz was formerly a senior technology reporter at BuzzFeed News and is one of the most cited technology reporters in the world. His work has been referenced by dozens of major publications, from The New Yorker to The Wall Street Journal to Sports Illustrated. He is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labour Relations.