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The biggest issue with a project under big tech giant is that they could afford to trash it at the moment notice. There is super low commitment on new projects

The biggest issue with a project under big tech giant is that they could afford to trash it at the moment notice. There is super low commitment on new projects (say <1% of work force), compared to a startup that is betting all money and talent it could get on a chance that there is an overlooked market for product X. 100% focus, staying far from a comfort zone and taking the risk is what (in a very few cases though) makes it work. Basically tech gaint doesn’t have to “burn the ships” and therefore has lower commitment, poor focus, has no sense of (get big or go home) urgency and eventually drops the idea before it bears fruit. It can offord to say “pass”, but doesn’t need to “bluf” and it doesn’t have the same risk.

virgilp 9y ago
On the contrary, my experience on the enterprise is the exact opposite: the new projects where the commitment is a high % of workforce are the biggest failures: the pressure to "deliver value" so overwhelming, that you can't "fail your way to success". You've got one shot to succeed. Do you know any startup who succeeded from the first shot? (and it gets worse - since you have a lot of "resources", you also can't move fast, because there's a lot of synchronization overhead: you can only employ a significant workforce once you know _very well_ what needs to be done; on new projects, that's never the case.)