> this thing where they do a huge push into a new technology, then don't see the uptake and let it die. Do we need a second "killed by google"? To companies l

> this thing where they do a huge push into a new technology, then don't see the uptake and let it die. Do we need a second "killed by google"? To companies like Intel or Google anything below a few hundred million users is a failure. Had these projects been in a smaller company, or been spun out, they'd still be successful and would've created a whole new market. Maybe I'm biased — a significant part of my career has been working for German Mittelstand "Hidden Champions" — but I believe you don't need a billion customers to change the world.