bigco

BigCo management harbors no specific animosity for the step-children, a few of whom are actually former BigCo employees.

BigCo acquires LittleCo after LittleCo starts killing BigCo with the new fancy LittleCo process/machine.

BigCo is actually indifferent to the step-children; but BigCo has a stuffy corporate culture in which certain kinds of people thrive and some otherwise excellent people do not.

You're a smart guy and capable of something different than being a tiny cog inside of Bigco anyway.

And that made you good enough with computers that you got a job at BigCo.

BigCo also has practical reasons such as not needing so many people doing job-X.

Features are one of many aspects that small Saas businesses compete on, with other small Saas's and the BigCo's of the world.

It seems there's something missing from BigCo's understanding of how social networks operate.

I don't care what some bigco that thinks I'm one data point out of a few million thinks about me.

The buyout terms required all LittleCo employees to be hired by BigCo.

It's not a complaint as much as it is an observation, but I wouldn't categorize BigCo's behavior as honest, it is deceptive.

BigCo is a big company, and we're talking about a small part of it.

If competent developers are willing to work for whatever "BigCo" is paying, why would BigCo pay more?

BigCo doesn't really care about these new folks, but BigCo promised, so BigCo tries to work them into the fold, and creates group "B" for them.

Nobody at BigCo wakes up in the morning and says "There is a spaghetti joint in East Phili [+] with revenues of $30k a month?

BigCo also has its own internal group "A" of people who were doing the same thing as the folks from LittleCo, but who weren't killing it.