Yelp has 4154 employees and probably 50% of them write code. Imagine you have 100'000 customers who all want 2 custom features. Large organisations naturally de

Yelp has 4154 employees and probably 50% of them write code. Imagine you have 100'000 customers who all want 2 custom features. Large organisations naturally develop large codebases. Yelp probably has 50M LOC and more. Probably most startups could do with 10x smaller codebases: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html