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Sure, but important difference is that 10-100 people startup that raised $300m behaves way differently than an internal department of a major tech firm that has decided to invest into a side project: authority to make decisions, willingness to take on risk, speed of innovation - everything is very different between the two.



Cisco and it's spinning out approach comes to mind.

They probably got this right.

Amazon is another company that is innovating disruptively despite it's size.




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