[AdrianB1]

Big companies are risk adverse. At the same time, the motivation for the people is missing, in a startup you have the chance to become a billionaire or at least a multi-millionaire, in a big company you can get them a billion and be the employee of the month with a $100 gift card. I saw it myself some years ago when I got my company a ~ 5 million/year saving project all by myself with a one-time cost of ~ 20k, I got a $250 reward on top of the regular salary. That was a lesson to not care too much. 2 years ago I got them over half a million per year in a 3 days of work mini-project, I got nothing, not even a formal thank you note. That project was not regular work, it was none of my business and I came with the idea and the execution alone, so you cannot say I was paid for such work. Translate this into a risk adverse big company play-pretending to do startup stuff.