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I think it is hard to reconcile this with the reality that every big billionaire dollar app does the complete opposite. Excel, Word, Jira, Salesforce, Facebook,

• jacquesm 3y ago
  I don't think there is a real contradiction. Once success gives you access to billions you no longer need to work the same way as you had to when you were much, much smaller. That's why as a small team it is wrong to adopt 'The Spotify model'. And yet, many companies will do just that. At every level of the corporate ladder there are different appropriate sets of tools and ways of working that will allow you to achieve particular results. Once you reach the Microsoft of the 1990's era level size (or Oracle, or SAP) you can ignore some of the truisms from the leaner days and do different things that would have killed a younger version of your company. Just like an adult can run and jump further and faster than a toddler.
  • dgb23 3y ago
    > Once you reach the Microsoft of the 1990's era level size (or Oracle, or SAP) you can ignore some of the truisms from the leaner days and do different things that would have killed a younger version of your company. I think there are two sides of this. There’s of course a much stronger need to integrate with established systems, no matter the unnecessary complexity, for those companies. They need to provide stronger compatibility guarantees as well as mitigate risk. The other side is that once you have that many resources, it becomes less necessary to strive for simplicity and uniformity. The value for those companies shifted a long time ago from engineering to business processes.