In the short term, relying on rapid growth to advance your company and brand is fine--but if you're ignoring innovation at the same time, it's like "driving a car 60 miles an hour off a cliff," warns DJ Patil, data scientist in residence at Greylock Partners.
DJ Patil, who epitomizes Fast Company's idea of Generation Flux, is chief data scientist at Greylock Partners; his career also includes being a researcher at Los Alamos, a Defense Department fellow, a virtual librarian for Iraq, a web-security architect for eBay, and head of a data team at LinkedIn, where his team created "People You May Know." Click "play" to see what he has to say about growth vs. innovation.
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