[adrianN]

Hack: Start development of n systems in parallel, to get 1-(0.98)^n success probability.

[ipnon]

Isn't this sort of the FAAAM strategy regarding senior talent retention? Pay 10x engineers to work on pet projects rather than have them jump ship.

[mikorym]

If only the variables were independent, right...

[fulafel]

This has been proposed and it seems like a credible strategy. The actually implemented versions seem to always end the competition phase relatively early so they are not very good experiments for validating the idea.