High-tech is similar. Where I work there are literally 100s of insanely bright people with backgrounds in math, physics, etc. who struggle for years to get thei

High-tech is similar. Where I work there are literally 100s of insanely bright people with backgrounds in math, physics, etc. who struggle for years to get their ideas into results and (ultimately) products. Usually things get stuck on simple software tasks like connecting things together, driving them in a feedback loop, or just identifying that all the parts are already there, scattered around the company, and someone just needs to write a framework to put them together. I honestly think huge business opportunities are lost because of inefficient software development processes. In a sense, this lends credence to the theory that once you’re big and powerful and have lots of clients, you can afford to lose these opportunities. But I still think that you would have a huge competitor advantage without all the molasses.