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Corporate stereotypes, and why Microsoft could kill your startup career
- HarryHirsch 12y agoThis one is a little gem: Google: The new IBM. No longer a startup culture. ... Google is huge and of course there are some startup-minded people there, but that’s not the prevailing culture. What I have seen are a lot of talented engineers who end up working on “interesting projects” that have no place in the market. There's a reason that the high-end research is done at Berkeley/Stanford/Cornell&such and not at Flyover State College. It's where the money is. Back when, when chemistry was a thing (i.e. 1920-1990) all the major players (ICI, BASF, Merck) had basic research departments whose output might or might not turn out to be profitable eventually. Oftentimes it was. You need deep pockets and a long time horizon to run blue-sky research, which at times is surprisingly profitable. These VC types hawking money to green kids fresh out of college thinking their webapp is the next Google are just the pox on Earth. BASF's Zentralforschung and ICI's Frythe have done more good than this type ever will.