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"We have to earn money at the end of the day though." Yes...but you can't build the products of tomorrow when you're primarily focused on selling the products
by anotherhacker 10y ago
"We have to earn money at the end of the day though."
Yes...but you can't build the products of tomorrow when you're primarily focused on selling the products of today.
- cJ0th 10y agoShareholders want to make money now! But you're right. I am also curious as to how this will turn out for them in the long term.
- enraged_camel 10y agoYou basically summarized why large companies often get disrupted by small up-and-comers: the only way they can sustain their operations is to serve the current needs of the market. This phenomenon is explained in Clayton Christensen's well-known book Innovator's Dilemma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma