90% of big-company knowledge lives in heads, and "company brain" startups are in for pain
gabriel1 · x · 2026-10-21
The author observes that in big companies nobody knows what anyone else is doing — 90% of information lives in people's heads across mismatched workflows. He jokes that "company brain" startups trying to reconstruct org knowledge from messages and docs are in for a rude awakening.
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