One of the reasons it’s hard to build new things at larger companies is because people don’t have the mental model of “My job is to actually learn new things.” A lot of the mental model is you get really good at doing something and then you are supposed to keep on doing that. Yes, there’s incremental learning, but it’s more about perfecting your craft as opposed to bootstrapping your craft. Even companies that seem to have launched one good product won’t easily know how to do it again.
