This kind of reminds me of Paul Graham's article on how "suit culture" ruined Yahoo, a company poised to be bigger than Google but squandered it by being engine

This kind of reminds me of Paul Graham's article on how "suit culture" ruined Yahoo, a company poised to be bigger than Google but squandered it by being engineer-unfriendly. http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html A quote: Hacker culture often seems kind of irresponsible. That's why people proposing to destroy it use phrases like "adult supervision." That was the phrase they used at Yahoo. But there are worse things than seeming irresponsible. Losing, for example.