All of those things are true of established industries with mature products. But that's also why established industries with mature products don't innovate and

All of those things are true of established industries with mature products. But that's also why established industries with mature products don't innovate and die. There's too much bureaucracy to innovate. A potentially great idea could be snuffed out because it threatens the internal ambition of a middle manager, or the silos required to overcome results in burnout and good devs leaving. Even if a good idea is approved, you need 20 different teams, requiring 20 different meetings, and overall meetings, and then you need status meetings to watch the budget, etc etc. > Also, strong, small teams usually don't scale well - which is why they sell themselves to megacorps who can They sell to megacorps to make money, not to scale their product.