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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mlinhares 5 hours ago | parent [-]

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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NBJack 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	aleph_minus_one 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> 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.
	▲	kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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.