Spinning Off Xerox PARC
from the will-it-work? dept
Xerox PARC, the place where they invented the future five years ago (and now have it collecting dust in the corner) is finally being spun off as an independent company. I’m not sure this is a great move. Of course, Xerox stifled the amazing research that came out of PARC for years… but independent research organizations have a lot more pressure for silly things like “profits” and so a lot of the cooler pure research activities will go away. Plus, when Paul Allen tried to build a “private version of PARC” (also known as Interval Research) a few years ago it failed spectacularly.
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Paul Allen
Has anything that Paul Allen ever done been successful? Aside from having made a gazillion dollars from MSFT that he likes to throw around, has a single one of his investments ever been a success? I always hear about how smart he is, but everything I ever see him investing in seems to crater eventually.