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thranx on 03 February 2014
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Figgycal said:
thranx said:
Figgycal said:

"Nadella also follows the moves of startups and encourages Microsoft executives to learn from what people outside of Redmond are doing... At the technology conference in Paris last month, he spent time with local startups like video-on-demand company Video Futur Entertainment Group SA.

It’s important to speak with startups because 'the tech cycle is such that the small guys make it big and the big guys die,' Nadella said in an interview at the time."

Yeah. I'm calling bullshit on those two paragraphs.


care to elaborate on why that would be bullshit? have you not seen the big companies falling these last few years, and the small ones coming in and moving up?

I haven't done a lot of research on this, so I could be wrong. But I though the quote should be "Big companies continue to grow as smaller ones go out of business". And I'm not saying it isn't a smart move for Microsoft, just that I thought his quote was incorrect. And I also thought most startups fail partly because they have to compete with the already large and powerful existing companies. "Learning" from start-ups is great for Microsoft, but not so much for the industry or those start-ups Microsoft is "learning" from.

For most industires you would be correct with the start ups failing and the big companies lasting, but technology and software tends buck the trend and do the opposite. its easier for smaller start ups to keep up with trends and make changes than for big older companies to do so.