At the top, it’s hard to know where else to go.
In an interview on Harry Stebbings’ 20VC podcast published on Monday, Andrew Macdonald, Uber’s chief operating officer and president, said that finding new businesses can be challenging when the company’s core business is already so large.
Call it the “classic innovator’s dilemma,” he said.
“The thing you’ve already built is so big that it just swallows up your organizational capacity to do anything else,” Macdonald said. “And even if you’re able to stand up other businesses, it’s impossible for those businesses to get the resourcing, attention, distribution, marketing dollars, engineering…
