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[p_l]

Product Development, R&D, etc is absolutely fungible and outsourced, even by some ostensibly big names.

If C-level could be outsourced while keeping shareholder returns, it would be

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See IBM

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The companies I had direct involvement with that outsourced R&D at least partially had names starting with J and N.

At least with J, if they outsourced the full part of one of the project, we would have it done faster and better XD