Social experiment

[Nico]

I was wondering; If you hired 100 people, put them in a building with everything needed to run a business (PCs, communications, servers, printers etc...), but gave none of them an idea what it is the company does, as in they have a job description but the "company " doesn't actually do anything or have any stated goal or area of expertise, would people in the company:


A. create profit and eventually guide the company into a real business niche purely through probability?
B. ride the gravy train and do nothing for as long as the money flows and spend the whole time wondering what it is the company does?

I suspect that people given higher roles would eventually push the company into a market, and that the market would be more or less random, and that the company would eventually become profitable.

[dontworrybehappy]

We already have a working model of this. It's called the gov't.

[exploited]

There is already a high tech equivalent to this. Basically they get a bus, and have thirty or forty nerds get together, and spend three days coming up with a business plan. Then they spend the rest of the time executing it. It has already spawned a number of successful ventures. I will find the link and post it here if I can.

[Winchester]

1. Brainstorm a feasible sounding hi tech business (bonus points for social media).
2. Go public.
3. ???
4. Profit.

[Sazari]

Of course it eventually turns into some business. Profitable, I cannot say. Depends on the people.

[exploited]

[NAB]

Prestige Worldwide

[The Dharma Bum]

It's the Jerry Seinfeld business model.

"It's about nothing".

[Sazari]

[NAB]