re: #184 KGxvi

The more I think about it, the more obvious it is that companies, especially big ones, are more likely to believe they can just keep doing what they’ve been doing and will remain successful. Large businesses are rarely disruptors - it’s the start ups that always end up changing the game. Microsoft was in that position when it negotiated with IBM and convinced IBM to let Microsoft keep the rights to the operating system - IBM thought the money was always going to be in the hardware, not the software.

a combination of groupthink plus “we got this big so we obviously know what we’re doing”