Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy | TechCrunch
Stack fallacy has caused many companies to attempt to capture new markets and fail spectacularly. When you see a database company thinking apps are easy, or a VM company thinking big data is easy -- they are suffering from stack fallacy. Stack fallacy is the mistaken belief that it is trivial to b…
Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy | TechCrunch Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy Anshu Sharma 2:00 PM PST · January 18, 2016 Stack fallacy has caused many companies to attempt to capture new markets and fail spectacularly. When you see a database company thinking apps are easy, or a VM company thinking big data is easy — they are suffering from stack fallacy. Stack fallacy is the mistaken belief that it is trivial to build the layer above yours. Comic credit: XKCD Mathematicians often believe we can describe the entire natural world in mathematical terms.
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