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Great essay, Avichal. Totally agree on 10x teams being the real differentiator. On "shared culture", I want to point out that a shared monoculture can be just
by kalvin 15y ago
Great essay, Avichal. Totally agree on 10x teams being the real differentiator.
On "shared culture", I want to point out that a shared monoculture can be just as big a disadvantage for some companies as it was an (likely) advantage for Paypal. If you don't need to communicate because of existing shared assumptions, that can make you efficient, or it can make you blind because you completely miss better solutions or other problems.
I'd love to see a follow-up on just the complementary personality-type diagram-- it's already a sort of Myers-Briggs for startups. Almost every category would work for non-engineers too. (I'm not saying it would have real diagnostic value, but it'd at least be fun.)
- mjwalshe 15y agoyep look at the German telco system very centrally controlled and they took a top down position that ISDN was the one true way - and so hampered the rise of the internet in Germany - which why they only have me to copies at the moment. And all the really good engineers want to work for Audi.