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I wonder why companies when then become big stop innovating. All these managers read Innovator Dilemma but still they stop innovating.

For example, we all know that Google has very very smart engineers. So I wonder why Google stop innovating?

The last disruptive innovation by Google was Gmail (I think).

Android is copy of iPhone (not Google innovation), Google+ is essentially copy Facebook, Google App Engine is answer on AWS/Heroku, etc.

I have been reading Innovator Dilemma and other books by Christensen but I would like to understand a little more what are dynamics inside big companies preventing disruptive innovations.

I would like to start discussion and inside stories from big companies about their attempts and failures to start disruptive innovations.

Meaning that vacations are not tracked but also not guaranteed. I'm not judging whether that is good or bad, but just want to understand how many startups are practicing this new approach.

I would like to hear what people on HN think about location check-ins. Is there a future for startups focusing on it? It seems like Foursquare is going nowhere, Facebook is abandoning it, etc. Is this going to be replaced with Facebook just posting your location when you post something?

I found it interesting that Hacker News is full of Google lovers: if you say anything against Google you will be downvoted.

I'm not saying that is bad or anything but just it is interesting. Could it be that a lot Google employees lurk on Hacker News? Could it because young engineers are generally impressed by Google technology and because of that anything else Google does must be good?

I invested some portion of my saving into GOOG. But I'm concern that 90% of revenue are ads.

Is it possible at all to disrupt advertising system Google is dependent on?

Just want to ask smart people of HN what they think...