Startups Are Scooping Up Big Tech’s Cast-Off Workers

Re:Startups Are Scooping Up Big Tech’s Cast-Off Workers by marcosdumay on Thursday May 11, 2023 @12:41PM (#35904700)

> there’s a tried and true playbook that large tech companies quickly put to use to capture any remotely adjacent areas

Hum... The reason why large companies have historically been unable to do that is because nobody in them bothers to do it, not because they don't know how.

And one of the consequences of a series of mass layoffs is exactly that people stop caring about things like this.

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Re:Startups Are Scooping Up Big Tech’s Cast-Off Workers by pydry on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:27AM (#35914286)

Or, to put it succinctly - Google took off because Yahoo didnt particularly want to be a search engine.

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Re:Startups Are Scooping Up Big Tech’s Cast-Off Workers by marcosdumay on Friday May 12, 2023 @09:56AM (#35916384)

Oh, Paul Graham (from this site) has a nice history about their ad-selling team in his articles.

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Re:Startups Are Scooping Up Big Tech’s Cast-Off Workers by kbos87 on Friday May 12, 2023 @10:22AM (#35916784)

There's another set of large players who have sucked all of the air out of what could have otherwise been thriving, competitive categories with many players. Google with search, Amazon with eCommerce, Facebook with social. Yes there are maybe 1-2 counterpoints in each of these spaces, but they've largely been successful at leaving a lot of would be entrepreneurs avoiding these huge spaces because they know they can't compete.

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