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It’s tricky - companies with high margin businesses are loath to scale into low margin businesses. It makes the firm look more like a commodity than it is. Mean
by lumost 4y ago
It’s tricky - companies with high margin businesses are loath to scale into low margin businesses. It makes the firm look more like a commodity than it is. Meanwhile startups in large enterprises are often desperate to grow revenue to show relevance.. leading to low margins.
- steveBK123 4y agoIt just seems like they wasted their lead, margin and talent. Bell Labs produced a lot of interesting stuff with their monopoly profits. Apple R&D seems to come up with lots of interesting new product lines. GOOG bought Nest and managed to become an also-ran in home automation. GOOG other bets might produce something with Waymo, but when.. all this autonomous car stuff is continuously 5 more years, every year. That's about the closest they've come so far, no?
- AlbertCory 4y agoJust give it time, Steve. 5 more years should be about right :)