Whether consumers realize it or not, there will always be barbarians at the gate.

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It is your last line of defense against the new barbarians at the gate.

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Two years later KKR is vilified in the bestseller Barbarians at the Gate .

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But in the digital world, the Chinese are the barbarians at the gate.

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Sounds like someone might need to re-read their copy of the classic Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar.

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So, are the barbarians at the gate?

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"There is always built into a lot of startups the mentality of the barbarians at the gate ... the disruptive nature that the startup ethos is supposed to be all about, " said Tasneem Raja, the digital-interactive editor for Mother Jones magazine.

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