Is manager/maker really the only way to scale things? Instead of the maker founder becoming a manager, how about the maker founder getting "assistants". For the

Is manager/maker really the only way to scale things? Instead of the maker founder becoming a manager, how about the maker founder getting "assistants". For the management parts, it could be similar to a traditional secretarial role, and for the making part, it would be along the lines of master and apprentice. Apart from these, there are certainly other ways to organize, if efficiency is not the key thing. If the bottleneck is "try out lots of cool things, and see which one sticks", such as a research department, then it could be organized more like a cooperative with individual makers. There would probably need to be some selection of things to include in a next release if it is a manufactured product, but on the web, that might not even be necessary. Sure, integration would be a mess, but in some cases, that is not so important.