Submitted 1 year ago by alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
Kind of sad really. A large bureaucracy buys a company to bring some innovation internally, or capitalize on a market trend. But the internal bureaucracy and politics overwhelmed the new organization, so it can no longer compete externally and internally it has no backers. And fails.
I think it’s a mark of a good organization if they can onboard an external company, and that company stays viable long-term.
A while back, I (with a few others) built and sold an innovative tech company to a large “enterprise”. What you’re describing is exactly why they bought us and how things played out post acquisition. I’ve since left, but the thing we built is now in shambles, buried and suffocated by bureaucracy and institutional ineptitude. The parent company has learned nothing, continues to keep buying smaller tech companies, and can’t seem to figure out why things always turn to shit.
Large organizations (no matter the sector) are almost always just coasting on momentum, there’s no innovation possible.
Even fairly small companies quickly develop such a gigantic administration overhead, that they quickly turn to stone.
This is the other side of the bullshit jobs book.
Red Hat comes to mind for me. Will IBM kill it over time? We shall see.
Interestingly we’ve been using blue jeans at red hat for years!
Bleh good riddance. Blue Jeans was the worst out of all video conferencing apps.
I find it pretty funny because I’m relatively informed on corporate voice conferencing as an employee and never even heard of blue jeans. I don’t think this ever even had a chance.
Verizon fails at almost everything not a telecom.
Is there anything that Verizon can do well?
Ah one of those endeavours where an executive thought “well, it can’t be that hard. We will do it better and cheaper and reap the profits”. Just to be hit with reality.
Have worked with many entrepreneurs. That is exactly how sone of them think. No respect for other‘s inventions, everything must be done right away and nobody is smarter than them.
To be fair, that’s kinda how Zoom came about…
But the difference is that zoom was usable. I used blue jeans like twice early in the pandemic, and it was just an annoyance to use at the best of times. Can't imagine what it would have been like to actually have to use that day to day...
If its not telecomm they cant do it right. Remember them owning Yahoo, or perhaps Go90 and how fantastic those turned out??? Yeah…
Wait, people think they are competently handling telecommunications?
That’s like saying ISPs are doing a good job…
Fair enough.
You know, Skype still works fine and it’s free…
Or Jitsi Meet. And it's not only free, but it can be run be everyone.
For company all-hands with hundreds or thousands of people?
It struggles trying to get 4 people into a group call.
HA HA!
Dankry@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I heard about this earlier but re-reading this headline made me smile all over again. I will never get tired of hearing about Verizon failing.
jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I feel like they have so many failed ventures.
remotelove@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They are just trying to emulate Google.