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The same thing that has plagued Google for years: institutional ADD.
by IBM 11y ago
The same thing that has plagued Google for years: institutional ADD.
- moron4hire 11y agoUnfortunately, it's an extremely fine line between trying to avoid such a thing and crushing creativity entirely.
- dmix 11y agoThis is under the assumption that fostering that type of creativity internally is a valuable model in the first place. It's possible they would be better off financing a VC/acquisition arm than hiring another 5k employees to be creative 'intrapeneuers'. Or some other model not yet popularized (such as the Valve decentralized approach or some shared ownership scheme).
- Animats 11y agoIt takes money to do things in robotics. It took $125 million in DARPA funding to get to Big Dog. It took entire CS departments at big name schools with tech support from auto companies (Stanford's VW was made computer-drivable for them by VW) to win the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005. You can't do this on YCombinator-scale peanuts. That's what academic robotics looked like for decades, and progress was very, very slow.