3 ms·
The article raises some good points but there is still a dichotomy here to me. Compare a successful startup with 2 founders with an established company with 200
by Lxr 10y ago
The article raises some good points but there is still a dichotomy here to me. Compare a successful startup with 2 founders with an established company with 2000 employees in the same business. The scale of the difference in employees vs the difference in the product is often shocking. BigCo product might be better, but that much better?
Obviously the quality of the product won't scale linearly with the number of engineers, but still, startups punch above their weight. Maybe it just highlights how much harder things get when the company reaches a certain size.
- tmnvix 10y agoThose 1998 extra staff don't have to make the product 1000x or even 2x better (however you might quantify that). They just have to make it sufficiently better to maintain or gain market share.