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> tens to hundreds of millions of dollars

That's usually not "a customer", it's either THE customer, or at least a strategic partner with which the company roadmap is discussed. I'm think bounds like Intel and Microsoft, or Apple and Foxconn.





Is the correction approach best, here? Of course at most companies that’s a ton of revenue! I can confirm at Google 10-100M yearly spend didn’t get you roadmap insight. Can’t parse second half of the comment, (bounds = boards, maybe?) but if we’re talking companies of that size, 10M-100M is almost assuredly _not_ getting you a front row seat to R&D.

You made me realize I am too broke to properly understand the scale of "hundreds of millions". I took it as an order of magnitude higher.

You're right that mere millions won't get you that much love from Google.


Yeah, I would imagine it goes both ways. I think McDonalds would lose money if they switched to pepsi. (I think subway recently did)



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