Large Company
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Patel: Large Companies Rarely Let Best Ideas Win Without Fighting Rank
“In a large company, best idea wins happens very seldom. You know, so you have to make sure you fight that, that urge to say rank wins. It's like the best idea has to win.”
Varun Mohan: Individual devs are price-sensitive; enterprises tolerate higher software costs
“Individual developers are much more sort of tuned towards small price changes. They care a lot more, right? Like if our product is 10, 20 bucks a month instead of 50 or a hundred bucks a month, that matters to them a lot. And for a large company where they're …”
Krieger: Startups have an AI alignment advantage over large incumbents
“It's why I'm really bullish on at least startups being able to explore the space because, you know, I remember this from my, both Instagram and artifact days, like when it's just a couple of you, like alignment is a coffee conversation in an afternoon rather t…”
Bier: Big companies fail at consumer apps because teams sanitize product truths
“It is much, much more difficult to build apps at a large company. A lot of the insights That you have are not things that you can necessarily present or put in writing into, in a VP meeting. Like we're building an app for teens to flirt. Like that probably is …”
Building a new product inside big tech is nothing like a startup
“I don't like making comparisons to starting a new product inside of a large company is like building a startup. Like, it is nothing like building a startup.”
Reputation is the most critical capital for executing inside large enterprises
“Inside of a large company perspective, like, your reputation is the most critical capital that exists to getting things done, and you gotta be willing to risk it.”
Lerner: Building totally adjacent products inside large corporations is a mistake
“If you are trying to build a totally adjacent business inside of a large company, don't do that. The company shouldn't do it. You shouldn't do it. It's not a good idea.”
Khosla: Large companies haven't driven major radical innovations in 40 years
“So I was hard pressed over 40 years to find one area where a large company was willing to take the risk and innovate in a big way.”
Weil: Corporate Pilots With Startups Should Target Localized Scopes
“Startups can't always ingest your entire business or footprint or do exactly what needs to be done. So have in mind maybe a sub product that you can trial with a company or say two geographic locations that you're going to do a pilot rather than the entire ent…”
Paul Graham: Working 20 years at big companies indicates poor founder fit
“I think if you have worked for a large company for 20 years, you might not be a founder, unless you were forced to for visa reasons, because if you were the kind of person that would make a good founder, you wouldn't be able to stand working for a large compan…”