big companies

“Big companies don't care at all where you're based. They have, they fly people in, you know, by the hundreds every week.”

“Hard application, you know, sort of practical application of a computer science topic represents The significant majority of questions at big companies.”

“And you want to optimize the number of those decisions that someone has to make to compete with you because a big company will make them on average worse and certainly much slower than you do. So the speed of market evolution gives you a lot more chances to co…”

“For those ideas that sound bad but are good because of this phenomenon, this one no versus one yes, startups can win. In fact, startups usually do beat big companies in that category of ideas.”

“Most really big companies didn't use all of those channels. They use one or two channels.”

“If you look at the history of really big companies, so many of them, most investors thought that the idea was horrible.”

“And like, if you play the big company game, they will always beat you. You always have to be thinking about, what would you have gotten fired for at the big company? That should be your playbook at the startup.”

“Big companies have the edge when things are like moving slowly and not that dynamic. And then when something like this or mobile or the internet or semiconductor revolution happens, or probably like back in the days of the industrial revolution, that was when …”

“When the clock cycle of the industry changes this much, startups almost always win, and we've probably never seen it change this much.”