http://www.lifebeyondcode.com/2005/06/06/big-or-small-it-all-depends/ Personal and professional development for technology professionals. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:28:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1-alpha-10188 hourly 1 http://www.lifebeyondcode.com/2005/06/06/big-or-small-it-all-depends/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Anonymous Tue, 07 Jun 2005 14:35:53 +0000 http://www.blog.lifebeyondcode.com/2005/06/06/big-or-small-it-all-depends/#comment-128 Thanks for the post Karthik. Really, I have no intention to blog-lash Seth. I respect him a lot but this time I had to disagree. I could have picked other pieces of Seth's post too then it would be a "real" blog-lash. I didn't. For example, Seth talks about eBay as being big (8,000 employees) but I think in that case, small is a relative word. I think for the kind of market cap ($52B) eBay has, eBay is small. They have the leverage of giants with only 8,000 people. The conclusions that you made from the article may not be the conclusions that others make from the article. From the themes outlined in both the posts, it felt that Seth was arguing against building big companies. My point was simple - we can't make a generic statement on these things that is extreme. I had a similar argument with Seth about whether to have an MBA or not. I must say that I am fortunate. Seth is one of my heroes and still I can still disagree with him (sometimes)!! Thanks for the post Karthik. Really, I have no intention to blog-lash Seth. I respect him a lot but this time I had to disagree.
I could have picked other pieces of Seth’s post too then it would be a “real” blog-lash. I didn’t. For example, Seth talks about eBay as being big (8,000 employees) but I think in that case, small is a relative word. I think for the kind of market cap ($52B) eBay has, eBay is small. They have the leverage of giants with only 8,000 people.
The conclusions that you made from the article may not be the conclusions that others make from the article. From the themes outlined in both the posts, it felt that Seth was arguing against building big companies.
My point was simple - we can’t make a generic statement on these things that is extreme. I had a similar argument with Seth about whether to have an MBA or not.
I must say that I am fortunate. Seth is one of my heroes and still I can still disagree with him (sometimes)!!

]]> http://www.lifebeyondcode.com/2005/06/06/big-or-small-it-all-depends/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Anonymous Tue, 07 Jun 2005 12:39:29 +0000 http://www.blog.lifebeyondcode.com/2005/06/06/big-or-small-it-all-depends/#comment-127 gee, rajesh, you missed the point by a mile and have just picked out a couple of statements to blog-lash Seth. his story compels readers to be small (agile, quick, sensitive) and think big (vision, ambition, leverage). Karthik gee, rajesh, you missed the point by a mile and have just picked out a couple of statements to blog-lash Seth. his story compels readers to be small (agile, quick, sensitive) and think big (vision, ambition, leverage).
Karthik

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