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What is the context here?
by johnny_canuck 4y ago
What is the context here?
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 4y agoI imagine they're referring to the fad around 2012 that a lot of people in the startup space fell into: startup people with no experience building and running teams suddenly thinking that they are part of a new transformational movement of flat self-organizing.. organizations. Things were never going to be the same again, a complete revolution in human organization. Except a few years later everybody who tried it rolled things back and realized there was a reason for hierarchy to have existed for thousands of years. It turns out that the reason that works for Valve is because Valve is sitting on a money printer and they're successful despite the free-for-all nature of the org, not because of it. It's reminiscent of people cargo-culting the Google dev interview, thinking there's a causal relationship there between Google being successful and their interviewing practices. I'm guessing the OP is implying that Zapier fell for that fad and should be talking about their experience with it.