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The solution involves large companies, not startups. You have an infrastructure and a pool of highly qualified applications that aren't going make or break thei
by pnathan 6y ago
The solution involves large companies, not startups. You have an infrastructure and a pool of highly qualified applications that aren't going make or break their personal finances on these problems. These are classic coordination problems, and it requires people skilled at this aspect.
Large companies don't talk about their work in this area much for a while for a variety of reasons. Bell Labs was a thing once....
It's sort of a solvedish problem if you imagine that you are not bound by "silicon valley 2-person startup" rules.
- not2b 6y agoUnfortunately large companies invest much less in longer-term research than they used to. Bell Labs was a thing ... once.
- octoberfranklin 6y agoBell Labs was funded by a government-sanctioned monopoly. Calling it a "corporate lab" is incredibly misleading, but popular among corporate lab types.
- not2b 6y agoMany companies that did not have a sanctioned monopoly used to have significant investments in research labs; those investments have been scaled back drastically.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoI'm completely lacking in context here, so this is maybe a stupid thing to point out, but the US has a National Lab program and you can get tech from them to develop commercially.
- Tainnor 6y agocan confirm. went to join a former startup right after the acquisition by a big company. it was a complicated product that would have required years of investment to pull off. instead, the company basically killed all the innovation, micromanaged everything, always wanted immediate results and didn't understand the complexity of what we were doing. we were all let go after 2 years and the project was transitioned to another team that had little knowledge about the product. some months later, they acquired our competitor.