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> The success of many companies, and probably all of the unicorns, has nothing to do with technology. So why not look at failure then?
by 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y ago
> The success of many companies, and probably all of the unicorns, has nothing to do with technology.
So why not look at failure then?
- dragontamer 10y agoIts harder to learn from failures than to learn from successes. Success has the false-positive issue. Failures have the false-negative issue. Cargo-culting false-positives is going to be less harmful than cargo-culting false-negatives. (X Company didn't use stack-ranking and then failed. Clearly stack-ranking is bad for companies)
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y agoMaybe. Just to muddy things even more, some successes are failures. Have you ever met a billionaire who said, "I was lucky" and left it at that?
- richie5um 10y agoYeah. At least with a success you have a data point that it could be successful - with a failure, you don't even know that.
- michaelbuckbee 10y agoIt's not the technology success/failure axis in question, but how much weight to give it relative to other factors. AKA in predicting overall success would a team with low tech expertise, but high sales expertise be have a better chance?