Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated

The more mature a company gets, the less dynamic it becomes, and its innovation, rather than coming from within, is often the result of preying on younger, more vulnerable companies.

Any company that assimilates smaller ones to make up for its own inadequacies, condemns those smaller companies to the same fate as itself.

This, of course, is not true of all middle-aged companies.

Throughout the natural world, there are two kinds of parents.

• Those that have young and allow them to grow.
• Those that eat them.

This may sound very extremist, but to subject any small company to the regime of a mature one, will reduce its ability to be dynamic and innovative. This then gives rise for the need to search for the next prey to gorge upon.