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I think we all know from experience that working in a big organisation can be stifling.

What I find interesting about it is it's the larger organisations that encourage specialisation. You would think that would increase innovation but it seems to do the opposite. YouTube, GitHub, Whats App, DeepMind, LinkedIn, these companies weren't created by big business, they were bought by them.

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I've generally viewed large organizations at the best as being better at refining, expanding on, and scaling ideas more than creating brand new ideas on their own. After a certain size, companies tend to favor working on things that are 'proven' and tested as their priority shifts from exploring new ideas to maintaining and iterating on their primary products.

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