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What I'm curious to understand is, are you at a competitive disadvantage if you don't follow this strategy? Or is it the case that a company structured around
by legutierr 14y ago
What I'm curious to understand is, are you at a competitive disadvantage if you don't follow this strategy? Or is it the case that a company structured around sane hours employing older, more experienced workers will be more effective, all else being equal?
In other words, is this pattern followed because it works, or is it just a cultural artifact that these companies would do best to abandon (but maybe can't for whatever reason)?
- michaelochurch 14y agoIt depends on what kind of company you're trying to build. If you have short-attention-span investors who want to see shiny shit every 2 weeks, and you're trying to force yourself into a B2C red ocean, then you may want the 90-hour-per-week plug-em-burn-em-dump-em Clueless young programmers. Remember that most of VC-istan right now is social media, and most of that is marketing experimentation that happens to use technology, but not technology itself. If you're trying to build Real Technology and you don't have a few 10+ year programmers, you're probably fucked. Different game altogether. Unfortunately, it's hard to get money for Real Technology because the payoff happens in the longer term. Most Real Technology companies make most of their money by consulting.