At most large companies, what is locally optimal for you is very frequently not what is globally optimal for the company.

One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development.

Being a public company certainly doesn't stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult.

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