[colechristensen]

>Besides, competing would have meant doing exactly the same thing over again. What's the fun in that?

All of the baggage and tech debt gone! THIS TIME WE'LL DO IT RIGHT

[dylan604]

It is not unheard of that employees leave a company to start their own precisely because the company is not addressing something specific leaving a gap in services. The startup begins to gain traction to the point the company the employees left buys the startup. It's like this is the only way for the company to "do it right", yet it would have been cheaper if they'd just let the employees do the thing as employees in the first place

[bluefirebrand]

> it would have been cheaper if they'd just let the employees do the thing as employees in the first place

Keep in mind the company is probably not refusing to do things because of cost. Often it is because of risk.

A lot of people running businesses have terrible judgement when it comes to risk

[colechristensen]

But also a lot of people go off and try to create competitive businesses and fail, a lot of people also try to completely rework the business they're in and also fail (it's a disease in early stage startups)

[yegle]

PeopleSoft -> Workday

[gridder]

Apple -> NeXT