Narrow ideas inside big corporations

Jeff Mancuso June 19th, 2008

A great comment yesterday from WagCurious, in response to Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield’s asinine letter of resignation from Yahoo.

Oh yeah, I get it. Big corporations are evil, because they diversify. If they just stayed wildly successful in one small, narrow market then people like him that have one great idea can stay on top. Why do I get this feeling that he added no value to the other divisions whatsoever.

Think hard before selling your narrowly focused idea into the arms of a giant corporation. It might not be where you belong.

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