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> most of the really interesting work isn't done by little companies What a ridiculous thing to say. Remember Google when it was small? Two guys came up with
by minimax 14y ago
> most of the really interesting work isn't done by little companies
What a ridiculous thing to say. Remember Google when it was small? Two guys came up with better web search algorithms than all their deep-pocketed competition. Look at what Arista and Gnodal are doing in the LAN switching space. Hell, look at basically all of Cisco's new technology offerings for the past 10 years. They're all based on technology Cisco acquired via acquisitions of small companies. In aerospace look at Scaled Composites and SpaceX.
New technology comes from small companies, not big ones.
- mjwalshe 14y agoAT&T cough Transistors cough BT and AT&T Ethernet cough
- epo 14y ago> New technology comes from small companies, not big ones. What a ridiculous thing to say, Some new technologies, of necessity, require deep pockets. E.g. pharmaceuticals, pretty much anything to do with semiconductors, aerospace, automotive engineering. Small companies are like teams within a large company, sometimes they get lucky and get bought out. Far more often, they don't.