Dan Heath
Who can share an example of technology initially used in a personal context which has shifted into a business/enterprise environment?
Ritardando
IRC is now Slack. BYOD everything. Enterprise is different from business, as enterprise is basically bureaucracy/institution, where business includes startups and SMBs. The entire security market originated in personal hacking tools, etc.
Dan Heath
Could enterprise learn to act like a small business by changing its approach to its tooling?
Ritardando
Arguably, no. Enterprises are mainly political orgs designed to manage problems or administer services, and not solve them. SMBs and startups are even separate, where SMBs are usually services delivery heavy, where a startup is a product company focused on growth. You developing a product?
😾 Oskar
Most of early agriculture technology. I actually asked here if shift from small scale farming to industrialization of agriculture is not just feudalism reloaded.
🤖 Razi
i agree, it was feudalism reloaded until decentralization began... plantlab.com is my favorite in this space
😾 Oskar
Localism is definitely an option. But how much market can it secure? Don't forget that a lot of agro outputs goes for farm animal feeding and I can see people limiting their meat uptake by some % but not dropping it significantly (I tried, felt very bad). I like developments in microbial soil management, there are many companies in this space trying to isolate beneficial microbes for crop protection and phosphor upping without synthetic solutions. Ie. plutonbio.com