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redis_mlc · 2021-06-19 08:46:24+00:00

More recent examples are:

- Robinson Helicopters, the largest mfg. in the world by unit count

- Dean Kamen, several medical devices plus the Segway

- an endless number of Internet companies.

Note that the Google founders couldn't write their own production-level software, so hired a python contractor.

Also for those that aware, Tesla's patents were used to start Westinghouse.

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jl2718 | karma 3404 | avg karma 1.75 · | 2018-09-27 16:21:30+00:00

Can you please share what you think is the best example of a large tech-ish company that operates like this?

Avshalom | karma 10515 | avg karma 3.36 · | 2017-07-15 22:31:08

you have only named a few though; 'almost every single large tech company' requires a particular definition of large tech company or a lot more than a few to be a useful(ly true) statement

BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 | karma 658 | avg karma 2.13 · | 2022-03-17 23:27:19

Boeing, GE, IBM, Xerox... come very much to mind.

wslh | karma 32011 | avg karma 2.64 · | 2014-04-11 11:28:33+00:00

Microsoft? Intel? Google? I think there are a lot of examples.

kunai | karma 3414 | avg karma 3.42 · | 2023-01-13 17:32:48

Tesla and SpaceX come to mind. Or Apple.

O__________O | karma 6259 | avg karma 3.7 · | 2022-12-25 06:35:33

Few at scale. Likely most notable example is Apple, especially since Apple brands itself as being innovative.

theorique | karma 3887 | avg karma 2.22 · | 2013-02-07 02:10:29+00:00

True, Google was not the best example since it is still young and entrepreneurial despite being large.

I'm thinking of companies that are hampered by (e.g.) heavy regulation, internal politics and competition, in mature and/or commodity industries.

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davedx | karma 10146 | avg karma 3.49 · | 2012-07-13 06:18:31+00:00

Oh, come on, are you serious?

IBM - one of the biggest R&D IT companies in the history of computing.

Microsoft - invented Windows, the XBox, Visual Studio, Silverlight, C#, the list is endless.

Apple - inventing radically new consumer products every other year.

Those examples are not what he was talking about at all.

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therealarmen | karma 1035 | avg karma 6.09 · | 2012-11-07 07:16:30+00:00

Well, multi-billion dollar corporations like Google, for one.

coldtea | karma 86593 | avg karma 2.38 · | 2015-12-09 23:26:16+00:00

Is there an example of a technology company that took billions in that had succeeded by their product?

Most of these companies that get bought for billions or multi-billions just have eyeballs -- and little to monetize them.

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axayratan | karma 1 | avg karma 0.25 · | 2012-10-23 13:27:27+00:00

And the example : IBM, Amazon.

Someone | karma 30129 | avg karma 2.33 · | 2017-05-06 23:07:20+00:00

If you leave out _new_, as the OP did, there's at least one example: Microsoft.

lonelappde | karma 1602 | avg karma 0.51 · | 2020-04-13 22:47:35+00:00

The biggest tech companies you know are founded and run by techies.

pjmlp | karma 109153 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2017-01-12 14:20:52

I can dig out examples for Apple and Google as well.

All big corporations are like that.

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aisofteng | karma 588 | avg karma 1.25 · | 2020-09-10 03:38:48

I think IBM is one.

unixhero | karma 4535 | avg karma 1.33 · | 2021-08-22 04:36:01

Exclude tech giants. FORTUNE100 or FORTUNE500 something like that.

mixmastamyk | karma 12554 | avg karma 1.22 · | 2021-05-31 16:07:21

There are others like Bell Labs, DEC, and Atari as well. IBM is sort of implied but worth mentioning.

sukilot | karma 2382 | avg karma 1.24 · | 2020-08-31 01:04:20+00:00

Huge companies have more than one product.

nostrademons | karma 78749 | avg karma 5.45 · | 2008-10-10 19:32:50+00:00

He was using those companies as the same example. Just because they're big now doesn't mean they were always big.

A lot of the biggest names in computing today started small, didn't take money, and grew organically. The best example is probably Microsoft.

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