I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control.
Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?
I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good th...
What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is tha...
When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the ...
The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.
The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.
If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
Every telecomm company is as big a corporate welfare bum as you could ask for. Try to imagine what it would cost at market rates to go around to every house in every town in every country and pay for the right to block traffic and dig up roads and er...
I consistently run into young adults who have quickly turned away from traditional jobs at great companies to try their hand at a start-up. I believe that some of this stems from the desire to strike it big like Mark Zuckerberg, but I also believe it...
The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.
Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.
Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.
My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic.
I was big as a kid, very overweight. That caused a lot of insecurities for me growing up, and on top of that, I didn't like the idea of big crowds. I found it quite frightening. I enjoy the company of people who I know, and I'm probably still like th...
I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it.
I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.
The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.
I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?
The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely - it's putting magazines out of business. It's put big companies into completely reinventing their strategies.
