For Big Tech companies, having endless money can hold them and us back

Many smaller tech companies also fear that tech giants are hoard­ing talent because they can

Amazon has more than 800 people working on what sound like videoconference gadgets on wheels, but it isn’t sure that customers want them.

Apple has spent nearly a decade and untold billions of dollars starting, retreating from and repeatedly reworking a project to develop a car that may never hit the roads.

Google and Facebook continue to spend billions buying and building fancy complexes when no one is confident about the post-pandemic needs of in-person office work.

We want successful companies to tinker with expensive projects, even if they don’t pan out. Wandering and stumbling is how invention happens. But that may not