Big Company

“If you try to work in a big company and become an entry-level software engineer or programmer, that's just not gonna be there because the people in that big company, they're gonna have training, they're gonna have older people that are in the IT department tha…”

“If you're a big company, you can't fight a major bull market. It's ridiculous. It's terrible business. You have to roll with the punch.”

“There's like a power law of who gives value in terms of engineering. There's some people who do so much that keep the company alive in any good successful big company. And there's a long tail of people who basically do nothing.”

“It's relatively hard to get a big company to swap out their database for some AI powered database, you know, or like, you know, core workflows, billing workflows, whatever, but like these brand new experiences, that's kind of the exciting part of the market an…”

“That's how startups work fundamentally, is that you have these small teams of people who each care 10 times more than the average employee, 10 or a hundred times more than the average employee inside a big company, and so they end up, you know, you end up just…”

“What would take a week at a startup will take two months at a big company and it's infuriating.”

“So now, for instance, in AI, it takes it's so expensive to develop the new models that if you're not already a big company, you have difficulty doing it.”

“You're really only rewarded for what people know about. If you're, if what you're doing can't be measured or isn't seen, it might as well have not existed inside of a big company.”

“What works for a big company, 99% would not work for a small company.”

“When a big company tries to do anything disruptive, they get an immune system response from the rest of the company and they get attacked.”

“For most startups, the answer is you should probably ship something and learn something from someone. And then you can make it better. If you're a big company, you might need to make something like quite good before you want to launch it.”

“Yeah, I really agree with that, because, like, when you're at a big company, and you're hit with GDPR, like, you, I know exactly how this is going to work. Like, you've got all the subsidiaries, and you know, too. Well, you're paralyzed, because you have to, y…”

“A lot of startups don't have that experience of how, how to run, you know, a big company, and that is actually what they all aspire to, so it's sort of ironic.”

“At best, the thing that a startup can do that a big company can't is they can just be fast.”

“And these, this big company said they could never put Slack into an organization where it stands now. They're still on Outlook, and they're not able to log in remotely. They also aren't allowed to access websites like Facebook and bring open that tab.”

“Many times they'll have a piece of IP, like, you know, something that they built that they know has a commercial application, but it's not necessarily in the DNA of a big company to make to commercialize it well. They don't have that hustle.”

“You can suggest something to them and they've implemented it a week later rather than, You know, you've got to go through some six month political process at a big company.”