> fact, creative teams are often more impactful and cost-effective (and hence cheaper) the smaller the company is. There's obvious cases where there's small te

> fact, creative teams are often more impactful and cost-effective (and hence cheaper) the smaller the company is. There's obvious cases where there's small teams that make outsized impacts and teams that grow too unwieldy to manage. But there's a reason why we don't have 300 Linux Kernel projects: there would be a whole lot of duplication of effort and it would cost 300x as much. Indeed, software has massive economies of scale because duplication is basically free. It has a bit more of a tendency to fall into monopoly or oligopoly as a result: there's barriers to entry but no production costs.