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The more you read about great companies the more you realize that this is the key : Eberhard realised that Musk was the first guy he had met who shared his
by waps 12y ago
The more you read about great companies the more you realize that this is the key :
Eberhard realised that Musk was the first guy he had met
who shared his vision for electric cars: Make a vastly
superior car, not just a car that sucks less.
This is why Google won, and again with Gmail, why Facebook worked (compare it to the only "social networks" that preceeded it - dating sites and you'll see how it's vastly superior), and even before, why Microsoft won (visual basic being the truly superior product).
We also know that design-by-committee approach of large companies can only ever produce mediocre products. Low-risk mediocre products. Most or all of these are doomed. A lot of stuff is ready for complete disruption.
- dmak 12y agoCould you elaborate please, what's the key? Partnership? Visionaries?
- Sammi 12y agoVastly superior products. That's also why the iPhone was the first broadly successful smartphone. MS Windows was also at one point a vastly superior product.
- revscat 12y agoWindows was, IMO, never a superior product. It saw success because it had superior licensing agreement, not because of its quality.
- mikeash 12y agoThis seems nearly tautological to me. Without knowing how to make a vastly superior product, and without knowing how to tell whether a product is vastly superior before testing it in the crucible of the market, this conveys no information.
- codeulike 12y agoYou make it sound very simple. But how do you make a vastly superior product, and do so without going bust? Thats the real key.
- conanbatt 12y agoHow do you know design-by-committee doesnt work? Apple has design critiques all the time for anything they make. Thats definitely by comittee.
- waps 12y agoKnowing several people at apple and microsoft, I definitely get the impression that at apple, very few people know about a product. At microsoft everybody knows and "contributes". Maybe you're right about committees at apple, but I think they're at least a lot smaller than committees at their competitors.