This is required reading for anyone on HN... https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Empires-Silicon-Millions-Competition/dp/0887308554 https://www.amazon.com/Accide

This is required reading for anyone on HN... https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Empires-Silicon-Millions-Competition/dp/0887308554 https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Empires-Silicon-Millions-C... ...more for fun historical perspective than anything else. Lots of great anecdotes and stories about founders. The book became a PBS series that become a movie with Noah Wiley as Steve Jobs. And useful insight: "As inventive organizations grow and mature, they often convert themselves into maintenance organizations, dedicated to doing revisions of formerly inventive products and boring as hell for the original programmers who were used to living on adrenalin rushes and junk food. This transition time, from inventive to maintenance, is a time of crisis for these companies and their founders."