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There is no such thing as an insignificant "quick blog post" when you are the CEO of a $365B company. And it is unlikely that the goal of the post was to solic
by abalone 11y ago
There is no such thing as an insignificant "quick blog post" when you are the CEO of a $365B company.
And it is unlikely that the goal of the post was to solicit ideas given that it didn't solicit any ideas.
- rhizome 11y agoFiscal year is ending.
- burkaman 11y agoI didn't really mean the post was insignificant, just that it was as low impact as can be for such a giant company. And I don't agree, one of the company's stated purposes is "incubating urban technologies". They aren't actively asking for any idea out there, but they clearly intend to interact with other startups and inventors at some point, and the only way to make that happen is to get your name out there. And again, what is the downside? If there isn't any, then "because we wanted to" is a good enough reason.
- abalone 11y agoA downside: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
- commentereleven 11y agoVaporware is when you promise a product and fail to deliver on it. They have not announced a product yet, only a research area.