Re:Nest’s time at Alphabet
by CamperBob2 on Sunday June 05, 2016 @04:37PM
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While I understood the idea, that you would pit your own resources against each other like that was kind of foreign to me. My own personal learning from that, having watched them for 15 years, four of which from the inside, is that as a way of managing a company it produces few viable products and no viable businesses.
I can't find any good citations online, but Electronic Arts was reputed to do that as well. Supposedly they'd put several developers on the same title, and whoever finished first got to ship.
I can't find any good citations online, but Electronic Arts was reputed to do that as well. Supposedly they'd put several developers on the same title, and whoever finished first got to ship.