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My point was that among public companies, there is a class of companies that move fast and quick, as opposed to businesses that are slower and cautious. The slo

My point was that among public companies, there is a class of companies that move fast and quick, as opposed to businesses that are slower and cautious. The slower companies by design are slow because they care more about long term value than the next quarter alone. Slower companies go through ups and downs in their stock prices all the time and don't blink much because they want to be around for a long time.

cxr 3y ago
> The slower companies by design are slow because they care more about long term value than the next quarter alone. This is something that is at odds with my firsthand experience here, too. Your previous characterization: > nobody in the company cares. Every single person there is just doing enough for a promotion or to avoid a pip. Quarter after quarter, they are just focusing on BS metrics such as tickets resolved, lines of code and other such nonsense ... also applies to them—i.e., large, inefficient orgs that have nothing in common with the move-fast approach. Slow companies are slow because their size and approach to hiring/retention means they're stupidly inefficient. They end up with ossified corporate and social structures that the defenders don't even understand. (Ones that aren't a form of redundancy or the result of other wisdom, but because tons of people in the org, including leadership, can't see beyond the end of the shift, let alone to the same quarter the next year, and can't be bothered to care, either).