Googles core products required them to hire people that could interview, hire, design, build, and deploy software. Along the way, they had many failures and lea

Googles core products required them to hire people that could interview, hire, design, build, and deploy software. Along the way, they had many failures and learned a lot of lessons. If my company’s core products or services are centered on let’s say acquiring surface and mineral rights, discovering hydrocarbons, and using the right technology for drilling, it makes practically zero sense for me to now also try to become an expert at maintaining servers, hiring top tier software engineer, etc etc. I don’t have the kinds of problems to keep them engaged nor do I have the budget. Software is a part of the business insofar that it enables business, but it’s not ultimately what drives profit. Many of the top tech companies outsource HR software or recruiting entirely, use travel and expense software software as a service, Oracle financials for payroll instead of writing it themselves, etc etc. Why? Because they want to invest their money and talent into the core areas that make them a profit.