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by hailwren23 hours ago |
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upvoteby RugnirViking21 hours ago|
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Big companies are lumbering behemoth, crude assemblages of barely cobbled-together incentives and principal agent problems in a trenchcoat. Getting them to change direction, or worse, try something new at scale, is a massive undertaking
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upvoteby mlinhares20 hours ago|
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Nah, you just need to get the CEO behind it. Most coordination issues get solved when the CEO is breathing down your neck to get something done. Trouble is that they don't do this enough.
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upvoteby eru12 hours ago|
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CEOs have limited bandwidth, and can only breath down so many necks at once.
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upvoteby NBJack19 hours ago|
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Eh, zero guarantees on that one.

The Fire Phone was Jeff Bezos' personal baby, and we know how that went. Then there was the Apple G4 Cube with Steve Jobs, the Model X' Falcon Wing doors and Elon, and lets not even talk about the Metaverse and Zuck.

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upvoteby aleph_minus_one19 hours ago|
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> The Fire Phone was Jeff Bezos' personal baby, and we know how that went.

I'd rather guess that Jeff Bezos' opinion on what makes a good phone is/was different on the opinion of many potential buyers.

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upvoteby AtlasBarfed2 hours ago|
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An Amazon phone with Amazon Video, playing Amazon Music, making phone calls throug the Amazon messenger, with an Amazon Browser that overlays ads to Amazon products, and has Amazon Voice Recognition ... blah blah blah

I imagine when you are a billionaire from one company, every time you hear the name of the company you hear your name, so you can't really think about what Joe Schmoe wants in a phone independently of your ego.

I guess this is what Steve Jobs was better at. SOME focus on the customer independent of his ego and Apple Apple Apple. I did say ... SOME.

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upvoteby kQq9oHeAz6wLLS18 hours ago|
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Actually, you've provided examples that prove the point. None of those were especially good (though everyone wanted the G4 Cube), and yet they made it to market anyway. Why?

Because the CEO was behind it, breathing down their necks.

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upvoteby NBJack13 hours ago|
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Pretty much every example is considered an abysmal failure that often costed the actual workers their careers while their CEO carried on.

If you consider that outcome a worthwhile endeavor, I don't know what else to say.

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upvoteby inemesitaffia12 hours ago|
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He's definitely not talking about worthy endeavour.

He's talking about an endeavour reaching the market.

I'm sure if Zuckerberg wants to spend $10B on Nuclear Fusion it will happen.

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upvoteby DANmode6 hours ago|
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It’s fission, not fusion:

https://www.esgdive.com/news/meta-inks-nuclear-deals-terrapo...

…and if they do all of this, it’ll be closer to $20B than 10!

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upvoteby TeMPOraL4 hours ago|
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If all it took to get viable fusion power was a FAANG CEO with $10B to burn, I'd be first to petition for it to happen, and even throw whatever money I can spare onto that pyre.
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