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I've always wondered how viable this was as a corporate strategy: why risk the entire company on one business when you could own several that may or may not suc

I've always wondered how viable this was as a corporate strategy: why risk the entire company on one business when you could own several that may or may not succeed, each running (relatively) autonomously, etc... Your comment highlights one potential downside, ie. people not trusting the company because it looks confused on the outside.

fauigerzigerk 7y ago
Looking confused is not the reason for the lack of trust. The reason is the threat of platforms or APIs getting shut down after you have invested a lot of time in them or built your own product on top of them.