He added, "The taxi industry feels it is getting disrupted and they are doing whatever they can with their lobbying relationships to try and stop us".
As Clay Shirky says: "it's true that if you're in the layer that's getting disrupted you might go to the beach at low tide and stand out and hold your arms up and command that the tide not come in, but the tide actually doesn't care".
Companies that are barely out of the gate are getting disrupted.
Speed is the differentiator in almost any market that is getting disrupted by online services.
The disruptors are getting disrupted, and everyone has to adapt to it or face the consequences.
Add the growing demand for security to that mix and slowly but surely, the CDN universe is getting disrupted.
"The DNA inside corporations is awesome," says Sharkey. "We're actually there to help them look at the categories are getting disrupted around them".
Established infrastructure categories are getting disrupted with newer technologies that disaggregate software from hardware, all of which has now been reduced to commodity boxes stripped down to their essential components and nothing more.
Although CDs and other physical music products (records! tapes! 8-track!) are the very old-school music service that is getting disrupted here, that doesn't mean that there aren't other companies also looking to provide digital music services in public venues.
This leaves everything to play for, as car ownership, in-car systems, and how cars will be operated are all getting disrupted and updated through technology.
