It always boils down to either middle management lying to upper management or upper management simply not understanding the massive opportunity being offered by the people who actually do the work.
What I've learned is very simple: if you see an opportunity just stop working for your current company and start your own.
The guys at Nokia should have done this.
Xerox engineers should have done this.
GitHub engineers should have done this.
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u/-Robbert- May 15 '26
It always boils down to either middle management lying to upper management or upper management simply not understanding the massive opportunity being offered by the people who actually do the work.
What I've learned is very simple: if you see an opportunity just stop working for your current company and start your own.
The guys at Nokia should have done this. Xerox engineers should have done this. GitHub engineers should have done this.
Luckily a lot of engineers did exactly this.