"We had just come out of a long experiment with self-management" Why do startups do these huge management experiments? My company did the flat thing too and t

"We had just come out of a long experiment with self-management" Why do startups do these huge management experiments? My company did the flat thing too and they spent a few months trying to get people to understand it. Probably burning up 5hr/wk for each person. Until they almost ran out of money. By then people were really confused. I think it almost killed the company due to the politics and red tape it created (strange, it was supposed to eliminate it). My opinion is that it's hard enough to run a startup, let alone trying to invent a new management methodology. Best to go with what people already know. It may not be perfect, but at least there's some prior experience with it. Just like how most would advise using the programming language and platform you know to build your initial product, rather than trying to to learn something that you think might be better.