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Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (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.

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