Um... I don't disagree with the authour but isn't this just a nice metaphor for small companies (where you have to be good at doing things) vs large ones (wher

Um... I don't disagree with the authour but isn't this just a nice metaphor for small companies (where you have to be good at doing things) vs large ones (where politics rule). I've worked at quite a few small/medium/large companies now, and watched companies grow from the former to the latter and it is always that way isn't it? I've said before that FAANGs used to be start ups. And did very well to keep that mindset for as long as they did. But they are not that anymore. They are corporations. Drucker said the same thing before I was born or most FAANGs existed. This is just the lifecycle of any enterprise. Even the French nobility were once a rag-tag, battle winning, bunch of Franks. The fact it has taken so much less time for Tech (however you define that) to go from rebels to empire is just modern life... Upvoted anyway, because it IS a nice metaphor.