It was interesting for a while but a bit of a shitshow. All the leadership felt they could run things they same way they always had instead of adjusting to the

It was interesting for a while but a bit of a shitshow. All the leadership felt they could run things they same way they always had instead of adjusting to the new paradigm - which is rather 'corporate' in my book. This is a great observation, and one that is frequently overlooked or downplayed, that the true definition of "corporate" is not the existence of process or procedure or anything specific, it is being static and not adjusting to change. Thinking "we don't want rules and process because we want to remain flexible" results in the shitshow, but it's those very processes that enable predictablity in the operation of the organization which leads, paradoxically to some, to freedom. The kind of freedom you really want is freedom from having to think about and frequently deal with all the ("little") things. To wit, if your plan is to hire 30 people for a new department, you want solid HR, finance, and IT onboarding processes so you're not dealing with those things in a bespoke way for each hire, so you can continue to work on hiring the next person. If you don't have good customer service and post-sales support in place, you're going to be constantly fielding issues from current customers when all you want is the freedom to work on getting new customers.