The Garage never should have existed: Why Microsoft’s grassroots innovation lab worked for so long
Microsoft Garage co-founder Quinn Hawkins explains how the employee innovation program outlasted bigger, better-funded efforts inside Microsoft for 17 years, as the company winds it down. He credits four choices, including backing people who built projects rather than voting on ideas, and getting business groups to pay for their own events.
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