That's a good point. Perhaps you don't have to live with this, though. I've been carrying this half-baked idea for a while: If small teams are so key it's wor

That's a good point. Perhaps you don't have to live with this, though. I've been carrying this half-baked idea for a while: If small teams are so key it's worth trying to be really creative to retain them, by trying various refactorings on team organization. You still have the problem of incenting high-quality workers, though. Which brings us back to startups.