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by a1369209993 2666 days ago
If you have 200 times as much revenue, why don't you have 200 times as many employee-hours?
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I think most companies want economics of scale, but even if they don’t:

Finding 10 good engineers that care about your customers is difficult but doable. Finding 2000 is much much more difficult.

Trusting 10 engineers to communicate with customers without promising things they shouldn’t, mentioning upcoming features that hurt current sales, have generally good communication skills, is again difficult but doable. Asking that of 2000 people....