As soon as your company grows beyond the point where everyone else has the same personality type you do, you'd be amazed at how hard it is to run perfect herd o

As soon as your company grows beyond the point where everyone else has the same personality type you do, you'd be amazed at how hard it is to run perfect herd over everyone else's ethics. Anyone who thinks that this sort of thing requires management approval from Google simply has no concept at all of how difficult it is to scale trust and supervision. Google is effectively a small country at this point. Someday a YCombinator company is going to make front-page news after having tried to spread smallpox using dirty blankets, and someone is going to suggest that Paul Graham must have tacitly suggested it was a good idea, and they are going to be stupid.