> Massive profitability allows you to get away with just about anything. > [...] > For every Valve and Github, there is a Microsoft or an Oracle. You are abs

> Massive profitability allows you to get away with just about anything. > [...] > For every Valve and Github, there is a Microsoft or an Oracle. You are absolutely correct that a company that has stumbled on a gold mine can survive problems in its structure that would have been fatal if money were tighter. However, it goes both ways. Some large, old companies have byzantine corporate hierarchies that would make Kafka blush. Yet money keeps flowing in, and props up this excessive architecture. Streams of money flowing in can allow for out of the norm flat structures, but they can just as well prop up redundant hierarchies, TPS reports etc.