Re:The new Ford, a Silicon Valley software company
by mathattack on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @01:51PM
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Subsidiaries are better than the mothership, but it's very hard for subsidiaries to get things done. (Lots of great ideas at Xerox/PARC, but they struggled to bring any to market) The Ford subsidiaries are forbidden from selling outside of Ford. That limits the customer base. Meanwhile, there won't be much in the way of equity, so hiring/retaining will be tough.
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Re:The new Ford, a Silicon Valley software company
by HeyLaughingBoy on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @02:05PM
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The overwhelming majority of businesses do not give their employees any equity. I think that will be the least of their problems.
Re:The new Ford, a Silicon Valley software company
by brobinson on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @02:06PM
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Fair points, but as someone who is about -$25,000 in the last 9 years on ISOs/equity at startups, equity isn't something I'm really looking for or caring about unless I'm joining a very early stage company.
Re:The new Ford, a Silicon Valley software company
by mathattack on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @06:07PM
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Would you really take the Ford bureaucracy over Google auto's? I can understand taking Ford for work-life balance, but I haven't heard anyone claim that's a reason to work there.
If people have true success stories of corporate outposts out here, please share. I'm happy to be proven wrong.