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Presumably startups produce more/better per head (that's the point, right?). On the other hand there may be a limit to what can profitably be produced by small
by aristus 17y ago
Presumably startups produce more/better per head (that's the point, right?). On the other hand there may be a limit to what can profitably be produced by small teams. We don't nee 30 different invite or calendar apps. There are good reasons why large organizations form, and there are things that only large companies with a world- or nationwide footprint can do.
- rokhayakebe 17y ago"We don't nee 30 different invite or calendar apps" Why not? We can have two gas stations across the street from one another going after a small amount of customers. On the web we have access to 1B potential customers.
- thaumaturgy 17y agoBecause gas stations don't scale. Even the "perfect" gas station -- one that had the cheapest, best tasting refreshments, the cheapest gas, the fanciest pumps, the friendliest attendants -- couldn't add new parking spaces and pumps every day in any kind of realistic manner. But software can scale. It can scale, theoretically, infinitely, meeting the needs of every single potential user on the planet -- if the software is good enough.