[asmithmd1]

Once you are established, have applicants work long hours for entry level wages as "associates" in the hopes they could become "partner" one day. This is obviously the law firm model. I have also wondered why it hasn't been (to my knowledge) replicated in tech. The cynical answer is that once you have a suite of profitable applications bringing in money, why share that with new employees when you can get the same work done for "crumbs"

[graeme]

Law firm hours are directly tied to revenue. You can't measure things this way in a SAAS shop.

[robocat]

True. But law/accounting is similar to an MLM model, where the rain-makers kinda get paid some proportion of the hours billed of their subordinates.