[hmrr]

My father used to import clone PC stuff from Taiwan. The guys running these ops were surprisingly small usually. Some of the original ISA graphics cards including the weird CEG (anti aliasing ones) had 3 guys running the entire outfit. The guy writing the software was stuffing boxes in his lunch break and there were no managers. Even the case design companies were one man outfits with all the actionable stuff contracted out. It was remarkable.

[AshamedCaptain]

I concur. This world is simpler than people think. They share specs on powerpoint files and the firmware is written (/built) by one guy during his breaks (I was going to say exactly this even before I read your comment)