Standalone units isolate knowledge and block learning across an organization. Early separation helps new initiatives grow, but keeping them apart too long prevents insights from spreading to the rest of the company.
The danger that you can run into when you create something that's kind of standalone like that is that it continues to stand alone. And then it does. Its knowledge and its experience doesn't bleed into other parts of your enterprise. It doesn't learn from others, and others don't learn from it. And so I can say that, you know, part of. And it was easier to kind of keep it separate in this first few years because you're trying to upstart something new, and it needs its space. It.
