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If you're a billion dollar company, you invest alot in multiple trajectories of the possible future, because you don't want to end up not being ready when the m
by rickdeckard 3y ago
If you're a billion dollar company, you invest alot in multiple trajectories of the possible future, because you don't want to end up not being ready when the market shifts (like Nokia for example) and being forced to pay royalty to your competitors just to stay in the market.
Now imagine you're a trillion dollar company.
- passion__desire 3y agoHow is one company able to hush all its employees and contractors on the details of such a monumental effort? It's like trying to build a pyramid in secret.
- 0x0000000 3y agoRespect, "all-in" mindset, realizing that blowing the lid gains you nothing but 5 minutes of fame, and then losing your lucrative job at the most valuable company in the world.
- KaiserPro 3y agoIt wasn't that well hushed, there were persistent rumours for years. After all it was the running joke that apple were going to launch a VR headset each WWDC.
- rickdeckard 3y agoBy separating Research & Development of the fundamentals from the Development of the product (on top of having NDA's of course). People and Media are not so much interested in technology research, and without a product it's also often too abstract to understand. If a company makes no publications or speeches at conferences, they can often work for YEARS without any special measureas and not getting noticed... The product itself they then likely developed with the same business-practices to secrecy as an iPhone.
- sumedh 3y ago> How is one company able to hush all its employees Not all employees are working on top secret projects, those who do very few get the overall picture, they just work on some individual features.