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It's a familiar story. Companies think they can save money by outsourcing engineering expertise. They think they can save cost by outsourcing everything to sup
by kiba 6y ago
It's a familiar story.
Companies think they can save money by outsourcing engineering expertise. They think they can save cost by outsourcing everything to suppliers. So their financials look great, but that's absolutely misleading.
Then you have companies like SpaceX eating everybody's lunches, and to my surprise, still eating everybody's lunches.
- sk1459 6y agoWould you say SpaceX has been eating a free lunch, then? Sounds about right.
- pabs3 6y agoThat reminds me of this article about how companies/countries/continents lose their tech knowledge: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
- bjelkeman-again 6y agoThat was very insightful. A bit of a rambling read but worth it.
- RugnirViking 6y agoIncredible read.
- xondono 6y agoThis is nothing new, it’s just the MBA syndrome. Go to any MBA school and they’ll tell you how sales is a clear “profit center”, while engineering is a “cost center”, and that companies are made more profitable by “internalizing profit centers” and “externalizing cost centers”. The ridiculous part is that this has extended to the point that subcontractors have other subcontractors, that have yet another subcontractor...