I see something similar happen when a startup goes from a bunch of self sufficient teams to one that requires collaboration and cross-team coordination, and hie

I see something similar happen when a startup goes from a bunch of self sufficient teams to one that requires collaboration and cross-team coordination, and hierarchies form. It's not the hierarchy that is the problem, but that at this stage half the people at the company are independent self-starters, and the other half are organizers and that can hold folks back for a period. Eventually the self sufficient people go to another startup, and the business hires folks more flexible working with cross collaboration and more organizational overhead. I'd put my low effort, unqualified pin on the Social Orientation Theory side of things :)