I don't think that's true, but often times when you work in a large org building actually ANYTHING is like pulling teeth.
Every decision you make is second guessed by 8 other people, and anything you do impacts 5 other teams. It's infuriating unless you're the type of person who loves working through people problems, and a lot of developers, including myself, aren't that kind of person.
Also, maybe it has to do with the fact that failure is an expected part of startups, but in the business world there's perverse incentives to build something mediocre, expensive and ultimately useless just to give the appearance of success.
With a startup, you're free to do whatever the hell you want. If it works, it works, and if it doesn't it doesn't.
I guess it would be possible to give in-house teams free reign to try out new ideas without all the organizational friction, but the startup model works, so why not just throw some money at some kids and see what happens?
They tried something like it somewhere I worked but messed it up. Everyone needed to pitch ideas then the 'approved' projects were the pet ideas of various suits, put under the same restrictions as regular projects, and choked to death.
Sorry I realized that we were both saying the same thing. When I say that large companies can’t execute I mean they do try, but 99.9% of the time they fail because of internal large company structures. I meant to say can’t execute successfully , not won’t try :)
Every decision you make is second guessed by 8 other people, and anything you do impacts 5 other teams. It's infuriating unless you're the type of person who loves working through people problems, and a lot of developers, including myself, aren't that kind of person.
Also, maybe it has to do with the fact that failure is an expected part of startups, but in the business world there's perverse incentives to build something mediocre, expensive and ultimately useless just to give the appearance of success.
With a startup, you're free to do whatever the hell you want. If it works, it works, and if it doesn't it doesn't.
I guess it would be possible to give in-house teams free reign to try out new ideas without all the organizational friction, but the startup model works, so why not just throw some money at some kids and see what happens?