Big Companies

2:00 Startup programmes saturation, Google, Twilio, IBM, YCombinator, ..

3:00 The Graph, explained

6:00 Which verticals are on the left or right of the graph?

9:30 What does each space look like? Startups - fizzy, bootstrapping, failure. Lots culturally though. Scaleups - shedding generalisms, getting rid of playbooks, making your own playbooks. Big companies - you lose the learning/growth, get into maintenance mode.

14:50 Riffing on the galleon metaphor

18:00 Microsoft as a “startup”

21:30 Loonshots, Safi Bahcall. How can you be a startup and a big company at the same time?

24:30 How startups work with big companies

29:00 Levels of corporate engagement: Level 0 - we should do a proof of concept. Level 1 - we’ll do a POC, but it’s mostly for our learning. Level 2 - The startup is learning, and there is exchange of value. Level 3 - very clear POC, with accurate milestones.

35:00 Why do big companies do POCs?

39:30 Should big companies be aspiring to be lean? IE launching MVPs, iterating, etc..

43:00 SpaceX vs Boeing as a case study - mentality, culture, and fail whales. Why vs How.