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The point is that a shipyard could also be run by a number of smaller companies, each doing part of the job, if only they can collaborate effectively. Capital a
by ciex 15y ago
The point is that a shipyard could also be run by a number of smaller companies, each doing part of the job, if only they can collaborate effectively. Capital and manpower can be divided between firms.
- rdl 15y agoThere are a lot of big construction projects (and even factories) where you get exactly that. Some of the staff on-site at the same facility work for sub-contractors (they may be small companies, or may be a detachment from a huge company). e.g. the guys running IT are a legacy company are probably employees of a big enterprise IT vendor (ITT, IBM, ...), not Big Steel Company. The guys maintaining the radiation camera are probably with a specialist industrial radiography company, not the big company.
- bdunbar 15y agoRDL already pointed out that shipyards (and other large manufacturing sites) do operate this way. There is one problem with a y-combinator approach to capital intensive work: someone has to be in charge. There is 'a' party responsible for delivering the product to the customer, and that drives everything else. Put ycombinator in charge of a shipyard and a lot of cool stuff will happen, but delivering a finished boat on time and on-cost is not one of them.