[WalterBright]

> Some people have EXPONENTIALLY more impact on saving a business than everyone else in the building.

This is true in every organization.

The canonical example is Steve Jobs.

[AsyncAwait]

So it's not NeXT engineers is it?

[simonh]

If he had either Avie Tevanian or Bertrand Serlet, the rest could be replaced. I was originally going to say he’d need both, but in reality one would do at a pinch.

[HPsquared]

Price's Law applies all the way down. It's a small portion of the engineers.

[AsyncAwait]

Sure, but isn't the problem that it's also a small portion of the executives, but practically all executives get paid rather well in cases like this?