The main thing he wanted, and never got... was a group of people working together on some task unrelated to programming, with an agreed upon measure of producti

The main thing he wanted, and never got... was a group of people working together on some task unrelated to programming, with an agreed upon measure of productivity. He wanted to see how much he could optimize their productivity over time with careful measurement and plain old trial and error. It's never stated why funding dried up, but here's my suspicion: Nobody was willing to risk upsetting the traditional hierarchy with something that might obsolete management, for example. Nobody other than an angel investor, or group of old retired technologists can pull something like that off. It has to be someone with time, or f*ck you money. I have time.