Companies die when they lose their competitive spirit, and start valuing internal considerations over technical effectiveness. One symptom of this inevitable di

Companies die when they lose their competitive spirit, and start valuing internal considerations over technical effectiveness. One symptom of this inevitable disease is denying the reality of the 10x engineer, or start to think that being a jerk somehow negates technical accomplishments. It's because every company inevitably succumbs to this disease that startups can frequently wreck established players; the latter forget what's really important.