Well, colour me astounded !
I’ve never worked anywhere where they actively tell people ‘if you’re on the pitch, you play for the team’.
Until now.
Them: This is not about outsourcing or offshoring key administrative functions..
Also them: The key administrative function is now provided by a 3rd Party, based offshore.
Often you will realize you are building the wrong product or feature.
For startups it is straightforward to pivot. At a big company, corporate inertia frowns on that level of disruption and so the tendency is to iterate on doomed products with no path to success.
At big companies the valuable skill is then to figure out how to convince people the plan is bad but not the people. Or get skilled at deserting the sinking ship before it sinks.
At startups, it’s about iterating to PMF.
Dare Obasanjo