Business – Robert A. Fortuno, P.C.

“Big” vs. BIG

At National Review Online, Kevin Williamson writes:

One of the things about Big Business that provokes skepticism and hostility is just plain bigness, the sometimes incomprehensible scale of modern multinational enterprises.

Well, there is “Big” and there is BIG. Compare these two enterprises:

Microsoft: 2018 revenue = $110 billion
U.S. Government: 2018 revenue = $3,340 billion (that’s $3.34 trillion)

So government is 30 times larger than one of the world’s tech giants. Another way to look at it is that Microsoft amounts to 3.3% of the government.

If “Big” business warrants skepticism and hostility because of its incomprehensible scale, why should BIG government be perceived as so beneficent?

People who are right much of the time are people who often change their minds. They are constantly revising their understanding and reconsidering their views. And people who are wrong much of the time are people who obsess over details that only support one point of view. You have to climb out of the details and see the big picture.

See Some advice from Jeff Bezos – Signal vs. Noise blog.

Ben & Jerry’s vs. Amazon

Raise capital and get big fast like Amazon.com? (The “big bang” model.) Or grow organically like Ben & Jerry’s? For a discussion of the pros and cons of each model, see Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon – Joel on Software. Required reading for entrepreneurs.

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“Big” vs. BIG

Changing your mind

Ben & Jerry’s vs. Amazon