![]() When I was reading the comment, I thought the same: why don't companies just accept that they have one good project, focus on it 100%, stay good at it, and when the market dies, the company could die with it. I never seen from the inside how corporations die. A lot of my friends from other jobs work there now. ![]() Then this money needs to be spent on doing a lot of unrelated inefficient discovery work wasting huge amount of money so they have a chance of finding next gold vein before shifting sands of economy and human development burry the original one.įrom what I see shared in this thread, TomTom still haven't found their second gold vein. This gold vein brings in absolutely insane amount of money. For TomTom this gold vein was maps on portable computers. Company becomes a corporation when it randomly discovers a gold vein in the economy. I was a software developer there, employed in projects pretty far from their core business, but I learned there a lot about how companies become corporations why they can and do run like a headlessĬhicken, spilling money left and right. They were already doing it back then, I think, but they've seen their salvation in capturing bigger part of that market. Main idea for staying in business, since you can't compete with free, was to go deeper into cooperation with car manufacturers to provide builtin navigation in cars. They were already doing some other stuff like fitness wearables but they didn't seem to be leaning into it. As you might imagine all this caused some concern among employees because that was, I think, the main source of revenue for the company. Other issue was live traffic information. I was there when Google started offering turn by turn navigation for free. I used to work for TomTom maybe 10 years ago.
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