Excellent analogy, and one of the reasons just putting a bunch of smart people together isn't good business model. A large fraction of them might be capable of

Excellent analogy, and one of the reasons just putting a bunch of smart people together isn't good business model. A large fraction of them might be capable of building algorithmically outstanding software, but that skill set is completely orthogonal to building a product, testing it, integrating it with third party software and/or hardware, maintaining it, and ultimately migrating away from it to the next generation of software.