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Ask HN: Does money and idiocy have any correlation?

by jmilinion on 2/25/13, 10:55 PM with 2 comments

I've been noticing that the more money a company has, the more successful it becomes, the more dumb it becomes. There are a few exceptions - Apple - but those companies are rare.

What is it with money and market share that causes good companies to all of a sudden turn dumb?

It's getting to the point where I don't want my favorite startup to be a huge success because I'm afraid they will destroy their great product for some reason.

  • by jordhy on 2/25/13, 11:08 PM

    If you think of idiocy as a "terrible and grand flop" it turns out that the only way to truly fail in a massive scale is to execute in a massive scale and, for that, you need money.

    You might also wish to consider the impact of bureaucracy in decision making. Big blunders usually have non-technical people making terrible calls.