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It is axiomatic around here that large corporations cannot change, except by acquiring start-ups. Why? Because any organisation with more than N employees star
by twillerelator 16y ago
It is axiomatic around here that large corporations cannot change, except by acquiring start-ups.
Why? Because any organisation with more than N employees starts to behave unconsciously, evolving according to profit and logic-of-the-situation. (I don't know what N is. Somewhere between 8 and 200?)
That's what those people are (unconsciously, angrily) reacting too.
- neilc 16y agolarge corporations cannot change, except by acquiring start-ups I'd be curious to see examples of large corporations that have changed by acquiring startups.
- philwelch 16y agoApple (NeXT), possibly Intuit (Mint).
- neilc 16y agoWell, NeXT had ~540 employees according to Wikipedia, so I'm not sure it would really qualify as a startup. Plus one of those employees was Jobs, who was borderline recruited to come back and takeover Apple, so that is definitely an exceptional case.