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Every time you see the trope about a startup inside a big company: run.

• cratermoon 5y ago
  Big companies don't look at startups as healthy seedlings to nurture to maturity, they see them as nitrogen-fixing cover crops to plow into depleted fields.
  • sonofhans 5y ago
    That is brilliant, and extendable. Plowing in some random nitrogen-fixer allows them to keep all their industrial machinery in place, and make no fundamental changes. Switching to learning how to grow seedlings is an entirely different frame of mind. One is generative and nurturing, where each seedling has potential to be something big and important, and thus matters; the other is extractive and exploitative, where the seedlings are just biomass for the machine. Really lovely metaphor.
    • cratermoon 5y ago
      I appreciate your kind words.