The moment Noam Bardin, former chief executive of navigation app Waze, knew that life at a big company would be profoundly different from running a startup came soon after he sold his company to Google.
“The first few weeks after the acquisition, we began dealing with the bewildering corporate bureaucracy,” says Mr. Bardin. “What seems natural at a corporation—multiple approvers and meetings for each decision—is completely alien in the startup environment: make quick decisions, change them quickly if you are wrong.”
