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why is that?
by int0x80 8y ago
why is that?
- baybal2 8y agoA paradigm shift. How it was: "make the chip, sell it later." How it is now: "sell the chip first, find out how to make it later if you did." Companies now trust marketing/sales boys to know the market better than the very people who made that industry. In sixties, a CEO comes to an engineer and asks what will be the "next bug thing" in one year term. Today, a CEO comes to an engineer and tells him what will be the "next bug thing" in one year term.
- gaius 8y agoHow it is now: "sell the chip first, find out how to make it later if you did." Taken to its logical extreme you get Theranos. Will lessons be learned? I’m not holding my breath.
- rjbez17 8y agoWell you also have to remember that companies came and went faster than startups did. And consolidation happened quite quickly as well. Engineers made cool things but only a handful of the companies found a hit, and rarely did the same company consistently find the best. What ended up happening is the bigger companies just started buying the small company that had the hit that year. The old model was no more sustainable than the current model.
- howard941 8y agoAlong with what baybal2 says today they'd have to fit in to a corporate environment that rewards credentials over demonstrated skills, gladhanding and backslapping over geeking, financial engineering over the creation of tangible things.