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July 04, 2006
The Scoble exit interview
Stephen's mentioned it in the forum already - he asked a question and got an answer (although Scoble got the spelling wrong - but you might like to have a look at ex Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble's exit interview for yourself. There's some fascinating stuff in there, including snippets like the fact that Google almost went broke before it discovered AdSense. Take his suggestions for a better Microsoft, for instance:
I would incubate more products outside of Microsoft for a longer period of time. What do I mean by that? Well, I’ve seen lots of things change this industry that were done by small teams of people. Xbox? Two people. .NET? A handful. Live.com? A handful. Or, look outside the company. How many people built my favorite TechMeme? One! The problem is that if any team develops something that’s cool it’s brought into the main mother ship very quickly now. That slows them down as they now need to deal with being dependent on other people and other teams. In fact watch what Google does. They keep teams separate which makes them look chaotic and not strategic but it lets them innovate longer before they get sucked into the “integration” phase.We've had a love-hate attitude to Scoble, but it's undeniably true that he's had a positive influence on Microsoft. And the lad does have a heart.
Posted by cw at July 4, 2006 04:48 PM
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