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I was just explaining to some friends recently that the only way to become a large non-entertainment tech company these days is to find a captive market (educat
by quacked 4y ago
I was just explaining to some friends recently that the only way to become a large non-entertainment tech company these days is to find a captive market (education, healthcare, power, logistics, emergency response, etc.), insert yourself as a cheap solution to a complicated and expensive problem, and then infect the entire sphere until your terrible software is load-bearing and senior managers can't be convinced to replace it. I'm not surprised that this practice also works well in non-software areas like hospice, elder care, transportation, etc.
- ecshafer 4y agoSeveral large "Tech" companies basically are that already I think. Companies like EPIC or SAP or many other large enterprise companies, we might not normally think of as tech companies despite their main source of revenue is selling software and perform that very function. IBM is another though I do think we usually consider it a tech company.
- quacked 4y agoOh yeah, I was primarily thinking of Epic, as well as an emergency services platform I almost interviewed for. If your primary product is software I think you're a tech company.