I don't think the age of the company matters much. Incentives can be aligned/misaligned at any age. I wrote a similar post not that long ago that argues many of

I don't think the age of the company matters much. Incentives can be aligned/misaligned at any age. I wrote a similar post not that long ago that argues many of the same points (albeit with a more incendiary title) http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/03/12/apis-are-dead-long-live-apis/ http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/03/12/apis-are-dead-long-live-...