Comments on: “Why There Aren’t More Googles” http://www.robhyndman.com/2008/04/16/why-there-arent-more-googles/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:12:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mark Federman http://www.robhyndman.com/2008/04/16/why-there-arent-more-googles/#comment-80228 Mark Federman Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:04:32 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/?p=2699#comment-80228 And the simple reason for this, besides the BAH (Bureaucratic, Administrative, Hierarchical) mentality is the BAH analysis that they've all been taught in their MBA classes, that fundamentally misses the point of the UCaPP (Ubiquitously Connected and Pervasively Proximate) world: It's not what the thing (the company, invention, etc.) <em>does</em>, it's the effects and changes that it creates in the environment of human interactions that matters. Google was successful not simply because it was a better search engine, but because Page and Brin either fundamentally understood the effects of a collaboratively indexed search engine, or just got lucky that their algorithm happened to align well with those effects. Either way, this is a type of analysis that MBA schools cannot recognize (because of their Industrial Age roots), and so therefore, neither can VCs. And the simple reason for this, besides the BAH (Bureaucratic, Administrative, Hierarchical) mentality is the BAH analysis that they’ve all been taught in their MBA classes, that fundamentally misses the point of the UCaPP (Ubiquitously Connected and Pervasively Proximate) world: It’s not what the thing (the company, invention, etc.) does, it’s the effects and changes that it creates in the environment of human interactions that matters.

Google was successful not simply because it was a better search engine, but because Page and Brin either fundamentally understood the effects of a collaboratively indexed search engine, or just got lucky that their algorithm happened to align well with those effects. Either way, this is a type of analysis that MBA schools cannot recognize (because of their Industrial Age roots), and so therefore, neither can VCs.

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