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Ries: Facebook bought a VPN app to track competitor usage

“Facebook recently famously was revealed that they bought a VPN company so that they could watch The traffic to emerging apps and figure out who to copy.”

Eric Ries Nov 8, 2017 ▶ 10:59 20VC: The Lean Startup's Eric Ries on The Missing Function of Entrepreneurship in Most Companies, Creating A New Accountability Paradigm & How To Structure Promotions and Compensation In The New Structure

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Ries: Most companies use Alfred Sloan's 1920s GM matrix blueprint

“Most organizations today are built to a blueprint that was perfected really in the 19 twenties by Alfred Sloan when he was the CEO of General Motors.”

Eric Ries Nov 8, 2017 ▶ 4:37 20VC: The Lean Startup's Eric Ries on The Missing Function of Entrepreneurship in Most Companies, Creating A New Accountability Paradigm & How To Structure Promotions and Compensation In The New Structure

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