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> In my 32 years in the industry the best performing companies always did these things regardless of the macroeconomic climate. Agreed. Creative, high performi
by ctvo 3y ago
> In my 32 years in the industry the best performing companies always did these things regardless of the macroeconomic climate.
Agreed. Creative, high performing people don't do well in a work environment that's structured like a regional bank.
Valve Software -- incredibly profitable, high performing and private company, did fun things like hire economists (and then later Greek prime minister) to study and simulate virtual, in-game economies [0].
Blizzard Entertainment had giant statues of orcs made and fan conventions before their downfall, ya know, in the ZIRP macro economic environment.
Google allowed their engineers 20% time. Before ZIRP.
0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis#Academic_career#Academic_career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis#Academic_care...
- drzaiusapelord 3y agoJust a small correction, Yanis was the minister of finance, under the PM, who at the time was Alexis Tsipras.
- balls187 3y ago> Valve Software ... high performing Depends on how you measure performance. ARPU? Very high. Shipping software? Super low.
- wintogreen74 3y agowhat about the hardware that significantly leverages their non-game software? I think the full ramifications of what they're doing with mobile gaming have not yet been felt.
- hyggetrold 3y ago> Google allowed their engineers 20% time. I once heard that this was more like 120% time? Meaning, 'extracurricular activities' on company infra was allowed and encouraged, but not at the expense of regular productivity/output.