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A company is nothing without leadership. A company is nothing without the initial investors. A company is nothing without the it's initial idea. It takes a lot
by kyrra 6y ago
A company is nothing without leadership. A company is nothing without the initial investors. A company is nothing without the it's initial idea.
It takes a lot of people in different roles and a lot of different resources (be it people, money, opportunity) to make a company work.
While there are successful employee-owned companies after, many companies today would not exist if you didn't have the motivation there for certain people. Do you think Tesla and SpaceX would exist if Elon had to give ownership to everyone else? You're not going to see certain kinds of risk-taking by employee-run groups, and that risk-taking tens to require people with top-down responsibility and vision to make them happen.
- wildrhythms 6y agoYou can have a thousand investors all chip in to build a factory, but without workers in that factory you have nothing. I'm not sure what this comment is trying to accomplish other than pointing out that the value of initial investment ultimately hinges on the ability to hire and retain workers, and ultimately the value of the labor produced by those workers. The workers have the power.
- herbstein 6y agoIn other words; throwing money at a tree doesn't turn it into a chair, and throwing money at a keyboard doesn't write code.