You don't need to be Linus to deliver a lot of value quickly, either. - the cost to start delivering value is effectively nothing (a computer and access to the

You don't need to be Linus to deliver a lot of value quickly, either. - the cost to start delivering value is effectively nothing (a computer and access to the internet) - the cost of delivering value is small (you need to provision hardware your stuff runs on, sometimes) which gives you high margins - you are not limited to one geographical area nearly as much as other engineers are (since you don't make anything physical, and legislation is relatively light) - you don't need to wait a lot of time for dependencies like you do in manufacturing You can go on and on.