This delusion (of being an exceptional company) is always built on some truth at the start.
And it is sad to see it vanishes. Hewlett-Packard used to be such a company, their products were exceptional on many levels. They had an incredible engineering culture and almost a cult following of users.
Today they make crappy printers and what else?
This is sad but I am not sure this arc can be avoided, success brings money and scale, and those are poison in the long run.
This is so true. I used to notice HP connectors at all the Ultrasound pathology labs I'd go to, they'd engineered plugs for sensor devices to HPIB compatible wiring which worked with nitrile gloves, smeared with Ultrasound goop, at a size anyone could un-do, with knurled screw tighteners. Lots of things about HP didn't work for me but I never yet met an Ultrasound or Xray technician who said their GUI was borked for them.
The market has moved on now but for a while there, if it was on a crash-cart in a hospital or related location, chances were it was HP.
>Hewlett-Packard used to be such a company, their products were exceptional on many levels. They had an incredible engineering culture and almost a cult following of users. Today they make crappy printers and what else?
The company you're looking for is "Keysight" (formerly "Agilent"): it's what's left of HP's famous test & measurement division.
And it is sad to see it vanishes. Hewlett-Packard used to be such a company, their products were exceptional on many levels. They had an incredible engineering culture and almost a cult following of users.
Today they make crappy printers and what else?
This is sad but I am not sure this arc can be avoided, success brings money and scale, and those are poison in the long run.