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Who's to say someone at Yahoo doesn't have the capability of coming up with the "next big thing?" Maybe the junior developer they hired last week will have a g
by bkbleikamp 18y ago
Who's to say someone at Yahoo doesn't have the capability of coming up with the "next big thing?" Maybe the junior developer they hired last week will have a great idea tomorrow - you never know.
Steve Jobs came back in 1996 - it took 5 years for them to launch the iPod. It's anyone's guess where Yahoo will be in 5 years - maybe Jerry Yang will be looked at as a hero, maybe not. Predicting Yahoo's position five years from now is impossible.
- phaedrus 18y agoMaybe the junior developer does have a great idea tomorrow - the question is, will anyone listen to him? Or will his small voice not be heard in a big company? It's not that they lack people who have the potential to do great things, it's the size/culture, the organization itself, which in (most) large corporations stifles new ideas and creativity.
- anupamkapoor 18y agoradical changes will flow top down not bottom up. at least not in any organization of yahoo!'s size.
- dmoney 18y agoWhat do you suppose the size limit for a company is, for changes to flow from the bottom up?
- Jesin 18y agoThis could be the wrong way of thinking about it. Maybe radical changes can only start within a certain distance from the top, and as the company gets bigger, the bottom moves further away from the top and can no longer initiate those sorts of things. Just a thought.
- mikedouglas 18y agoIf your business plan is "maybe one of us will turn out to be the next Steve Jobs," it may be better just to sell to MSFT ;)