QUOTE
“Things have already changed so much that this is hard for us to believe, but till just a few decades ago the largest organizations tended to be the most progressive. An ambitious kid graduating from college in 1960 wanted to work in the huge, gleaming offices of Ford, or General Electric, or NASA. Small meant small-time. Small in 1960 didn’t mean a cool little startup. It meant uncle Sid’s shoe store“
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Paul Graham’s post goes on to talk about the ability of small organizations to move more efficiently than large ones.  I have certainly found that to be true.

Case in point: a client of mine recently tried to enlist a major global corporation in a beta test of its new product.  Two weeks after the beta program closed the corporation is still trying to figure out it it can agree to the terms of our beta test agreement.

-Jay

Paul Graham - The High-Res Society (via bijan)

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