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> which leads to the pervasive culture in all Fortune 1000's: I feel this is the same problem as an online community faces: the density of talent gets diluted
by hintymad 4y ago
> which leads to the pervasive culture in all Fortune 1000's:
I feel this is the same problem as an online community faces: the density of talent gets diluted over time as the community grows larger. When you only 1000 members in Quora, you get detailed and nuanced answers that open your eyes and expand your mind. When you have 100M users in quora, most of the answers are meh. Similarly, when a company grows rapidly with only few hundreds of people, you get amazing talent as described in the book Show Stopper. When the company grows to north of $1T with hundreds of thousands of people, well, you get current-day Microsoft and eventually IBM