Opinion

August 17, 2021

The three reasons corporates fail at building startups

The Goldilocks problem, misaligned incentives and brain drain are the most common reasons for failure. This is how you avoid them.


Sahil Sachdev

5 min read

Photo by Valery Fedotov on Unsplash

With the world learning to live, and work with and around Covid, the mood music is beginning to shift in the corporate boardroom. If the CFO was holding the reins for most of the last financial year, the CEO is now firmly back in the driving seat — and for the most progressive of those, venture building is top of the innovation agenda.

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