PREAMBLE Big corporations are slow, dumb dinosaurs waiting to be 'disrupted', but the reality is not so simple. Does this sound familiar? It's pretty familiar Are we missing the full picture? thinking in startup circles. I was consumed by the idea of delving into this with I don't buy it, though - here's why. a different approach. To pair an ecosystem expert with academic firepower to cut through a dataset of Since you're curious enough not to skip the the world's 500 biggest public corporations, preamble, let me reward you with some juicy analyzing what they've been doing with startups, backstory to this so-called report. what successful stories exist and eventually come up with a guide of sorts to supplement the efforts of any First off, it was never intended to be a 'report' as corporation hoping to execute their own startup much as an expose; a voyage of truth aimed at masterplan. debunking myths, and opening the door to a new conversation. My hope is that by finding and sharing these stories, it will make success less elusive and easier to Yes, the 'dinosaur' label is catchy, but it ignores the replicate. And be a small step in getting more fact that these corporations sit on more cash corporate resources into the new global engine of reserves than most venture capitalists will ever have, innovation known as startups, in ways where and can deploy assets that could cause some serious everyone wins, especially corporations themselves. disruption of their own. I mean, surely not every corporation is content to just sit on all that capital, Let this hope be yours to guide you watching the world go by? through our humble #500CORPORATIONS 'report'. Maybe there are just not enough stories of corporate Khailee Ng + startup collaborations thundering through Managing Partner Or perhaps corporations mainstream consciousness. 500 Startups who are doing all the right things simply don't want you to know about it. Funny how we hear stories of acquisitions which made the founders rich, and then the corporation eventually shut down the startup they bought-and we think "What idiots!". #500CORPORATIONS 2