![]() ![]() ![]() Great companies collectively think like a hedgehog. Any great company has a defining vision that guides a diverse team to a shared goal. What the heck does this have to do with launching a software company?” Most people have a belief about the universe, but they experience life through many different pursuits.Īt this point you may be thinking, “Thanks for the armchair philosophy lesson, Marc. In reality most people are not just a hedgehog or a fox. Keeping it Greek, Plato is a hedgehog while Aristotle is a fox. The quote “a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing” is actually a verse from the Greek poet Archilochus. If I’m going to write about hedgehogs I might as well refer to Isaiah Berlin’s essay called “The Hedgehog and the Fox.” Berlin expands upon this idea to divide writers and thinkers into two categories: hedgehogs, who view the world through the lens of a single defining idea and foxes, who draw on a wide variety of experiences and for whom the world cannot be boiled down to a single idea. I am writing this blog post to announce my new company Hedgehog, so I might as well talk about hedgehogs. ![]() ![]() Millions of cloud native workloads will deploy on distributed cloud infrastructure with open network fabrics ![]()
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