Company Success Debate
Commenters challenge claims about practices causing company failures by citing numerous successful companies like Uber, Google, and Facebook that don't follow them, while debating metrics of success such as revenue, market cap, and luck.
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Indeed, it would seem that some companies are successful while others are not!
The point was many successful companies don't do this.
for every failing company that does this there are tons of successful ones that don’t fail. uber, google, facebook, etc
"most of those companies were successful" - that's not even true
It seems like the problem is whoever pointed them as successful... successful ideas, maybe, but not companies.
There are companies out there that probably do none of these things and are x1000 more successful from a revenue or market cap perspective. Seems like the biggest successes are simply being at the right place at the right time and not being a complete idiot. Nobody wants to hear that though.
Your measure of success would make a lot of good companies look like failures.
Some insights perhaps, but the claim that this is "Why big companies keep failing" is way overblown
It looks nice, but.... Failed companies would be much more interesting. Everyone knows the successful companies.
I think OP meant most successful companies