Quote From Hackers and Painters — Paul Graham

If you want to make money at some point, remember this, because this is one of the reasons startups win. Big companies want to decrease the standard deviation of design outcomes because they want to avoid disasters. But when you damp oscillations, you lose the high points as well as the low. This is not a problem for big companies, because they don’t win by making great products. Big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.

Paul Graham Hackers and Painters
I think Apple is kind of an exception. They do suck at some point, while they shine on something else. Anyway, I enjoy the last sentence, big companies win by sucking less than other big companies.

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