big companies
6 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 28, 2015 by Marvin Liao · across every show →
Everything said about big companies, oldest first
Oct 28, 2015 negative
Liao: Using M&A as R&D fails for most large tech companies
“I mean M&A is hard in, in general. I think most big companies are not good at M&A. I think like Cisco used to have a good reputation for doing good M&A. Boy, Facebook I think has done a great job. I think in the last week they'll be done. But outside of that, …”
Oct 26, 2018 bearish
Nov 2, 2020 positive
Eggers: Startups, not big corporations, will solve climate change
“I do think that climate change is going to be solved by technology, largely, and by people changing their daily routines, but technology is key, and I don't think it's going to be necessarily solved by the big companies. I think the solutions are going to come…”
Aug 7, 2025
Dec 4, 2025 neutral
Lemkin: Big Tech Companies Struggle to Sustain Small AI Initiatives
“One thing that hasn't changed is in the age of AI is big companies only have so many priorities. They can introduce a lot of little, little tests, but at the end of the day, it takes a lot of energy in a big company to Keep a big initiative going because there…”
May 23, 2026 negative
Peets: Tech companies deploy forward engineers to cover for weak core products
“I mean, I know a lot of people that think forward deployed engineers simply make up for a shitty product. There's, and there's something to that, right? I mean, like, look, you're basically, and I won't mention companies here, but there's big companies out the…”