Why do you think they "dont do this anymore"?
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Great question! Thanks for asking. It is a confluence of things. Top 2 are: 1) No desire to do pure research and to support thinking and new ideas, its all about execution. 2) big tax advantage to just evolve/iterate by acquiring startups & new talent, no investment in old talent
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Apple did this in the 90s and all of its expensive Advanced Research Group tech ended up mostly taken by other companies, similar to PARC. Google X and Microsoft Research are doing this today with similarly little payoff.



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This is why fundamental research most often works best when it’s government funded. The licensing agreements need to be worked on, though...
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@Qualtrics that started@5ForTheFight_. Many of the nearly 3k employees donate $5+ each paycheck towards cancer research. With SAP acquiring Q, their nearly 100k employees are joining. Hope & goal is to get other companies to join us.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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