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A much more clear example. However and tying this into what Steve Jobs was saying, Microsoft's culture would not be "plain vanilla ice cream". It's lacking tast
by waboremo 4y ago
A much more clear example. However and tying this into what Steve Jobs was saying, Microsoft's culture would not be "plain vanilla ice cream". It's lacking taste, so it would be a waffle cone topped with mayonnaise that looks like soft serve vanilla ice cream. They have no taste, they can't tell the difference and due to their massive moats people eat up anyways.
- BoorishBears 4y agoI agree they're not vanilla ice cream, but I do think Microsoft could be that vanilla provider if they actually worked to form a culture. These ads are a great example: So many teams did thing right to get "BingGPT" in everyone's minds. But then some tasteless exec looking to notch "monetized leading LLM driven search engine" on their belt got to ask some developers to get some ads into the thing and now they've dumped on all the hard work that came before that. If they had a proper culture ideally an exec like that would not work at MS, and even if they did they'd have hit resistance on so many levels. Developers would not want to work on it. Designers would push back, PMs would deprioritize. At the end of the day their short-sighted idea would have stayed just that: an idea.
- waboremo 4y agoFully in agreement, they're in all the necessary positions to do so.