THE COCKROACH WILL SURVIVE THE AI NUCLEAR BLAST.*
The unicorn will not.
Resilience begins by listing the ways you can die. The unicorn never made the list.
In May 2026, remarks by India's Chief Justice comparing some unemployed young people to cockroaches escaped the courtroom and became a generational flag. He tried to narrow the meaning the next day. The internet had already taken custody of the word.
Peter Drucker gave the corporation twenty-five years to live—not legally, but structurally and economically. The clock reached 2025 just as artificial intelligence began dissolving the assumptions that held the old hierarchy together. Now AI is arriving with five winters in its luggage: capital, margin, productivity, infrastructure, and legitimacy. The companies most certain of permanent summer are the ones dressed for it.
Saji Madapat spent three decades inside the machine: Y2K's CyberCoolie, Fortune 10 transformation rooms, Big Four consulting, enterprise performance management, and aerospace and defense—a self-described Corporate Arsonist who kept copies of the invoices. This book is his confession, his autopsy report, and his survival manual, in that order.
Inside: why the unicorn’s horn is glued on. Why venture capital is weather, not entrepreneurship. Why Demo Day is sexual selection. Why the world’s most famous consultancy built an AI to automate its own larvae. And why the most dangerous number in capitalism is enough.
The cockroach is not the hero. It is the design critic. Its lineage predates the dinosaurs and endured repeated mass extinctions by being the one thing no unicorn can afford to be: difficult to kill for stupid reasons.
Silicon Valley asks: How big can this become?
This book asks the harder question: How wrong can we be—and still remain alive, useful, and worth inheriting?
*The cockroach will not survive the nuclear blast. Good. Resilience begins by listing the ways you can die. The unicorn never made the list.
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SAJI MADAPAT entered global technology through the crack Y2K opened and spent the following decades inside large transformation programs. His journey traces one of the most improbable arcs in modern finance—from a boatman’s son in the below-sea-level paddies of Kuttanad, Kerala, to the CFO's office of a Fortune 10 "World's Most Admired Company". Cockroach Manifesto is part of his Gods Must Be Crazy series. He has been the arsonist. This is the fire code.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. THE COCKROACH WILL SURVIVE THE AI NUCLEAR BLAST.*The unicorn will not.Resilience begins by listing the ways you can die. The unicorn never made the list.In May 2026, remarks by India's Chief Justice comparing some unemployed young people to cockroaches escaped the courtroom and became a generational flag. He tried to narrow the meaning the next day. The internet had already taken custody of the word.Peter Drucker gave the corporation twenty-five years to live-not legally, but structurally and economically. The clock reached 2025 just as artificial intelligence began dissolving the assumptions that held the old hierarchy together. Now AI is arriving with five winters in its luggage: capital, margin, productivity, infrastructure, and legitimacy. The companies most certain of permanent summer are the ones dressed for it.Saji Madapat spent three decades inside the machine: Y2K's CyberCoolie, Fortune 10 transformation rooms, Big Four consulting, enterprise performance management, and aerospace and defense-a self-described Corporate Arsonist who kept copies of the invoices. This book is his confession, his autopsy report, and his survival manual, in that order.Inside: why the unicorn's horn is glued on. Why venture capital is weather, not entrepreneurship. Why Demo Day is sexual selection. Why the world's most famous consultancy built an AI to automate its own larvae. And why the most dangerous number in capitalism is enough.The cockroach is not the hero. It is the design critic. Its lineage predates the dinosaurs and endured repeated mass extinctions by being the one thing no unicorn can afford to be: difficult to kill for stupid reasons.Silicon Valley asks: How big can this become?This book asks the harder question: How wrong can we be-and still remain alive, useful, and worth inheriting? *The cockroach will not survive the nuclear blast. Good. Resilience begins by listing the ways you can die. The unicorn never made the list.- - -SAJI MADAPAT entered global technology through the crack Y2K opened and spent the following decades inside large transformation programs. His journey traces one of the most improbable arcs in modern finance-from a boatman's son in the below-sea-level paddies of Kuttanad, Kerala, to the CFO's office of a Fortune 10 "World's Most Admired Company". Cockroach Manifesto is part of his Gods Must Be Crazy series. He has been the arsonist. This is the fire code. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781964213125
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. THE COCKROACH WILL SURVIVE THE AI NUCLEAR BLAST.*The unicorn will not.Resilience begins by listing the ways you can die. The unicorn never made the list.In May 2026, remarks by India's Chief Justice comparing some unemployed young people to cockroaches escaped the courtroom and became a generational flag. He tried to narrow the meaning the next day. The internet had already taken custody of the word.Peter Drucker gave the corporation twenty-five years to live-not legally, but structurally and economically. The clock reached 2025 just as artificial intelligence began dissolving the assumptions that held the old hierarchy together. Now AI is arriving with five winters in its luggage: capital, margin, productivity, infrastructure, and legitimacy. The companies most certain of permanent summer are the ones dressed for it.Saji Madapat spent three decades inside the machine: Y2K's CyberCoolie, Fortune 10 transformation rooms, Big Four consulting, enterprise performance management, and aerospace and defense-a self-described Corporate Arsonist who kept copies of the invoices. This book is his confession, his autopsy report, and his survival manual, in that order.Inside: why the unicorn's horn is glued on. Why venture capital is weather, not entrepreneurship. Why Demo Day is sexual selection. Why the world's most famous consultancy built an AI to automate its own larvae. And why the most dangerous number in capitalism is enough.The cockroach is not the hero. It is the design critic. Its lineage predates the dinosaurs and endured repeated mass extinctions by being the one thing no unicorn can afford to be: difficult to kill for stupid reasons.Silicon Valley asks: How big can this become?This book asks the harder question: How wrong can we be-and still remain alive, useful, and worth inheriting? *The cockroach will not survive the nuclear blast. Good. Resilience begins by listing the ways you can die. The unicorn never made the list.- - -SAJI MADAPAT entered global technology through the crack Y2K opened and spent the following decades inside large transformation programs. His journey traces one of the most improbable arcs in modern finance-from a boatman's son in the below-sea-level paddies of Kuttanad, Kerala, to the CFO's office of a Fortune 10 "World's Most Admired Company". Cockroach Manifesto is part of his Gods Must Be Crazy series. He has been the arsonist. This is the fire code. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9781964213125
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