[KingOfCoders]

I also found working in smaller companies more effective (worked in 20 people, 500 people and 30.000 people companies).

DHH recently said at a conference on how people always tell him they were happy when the company was small, and asked "Why scale then?" (the panel agreed that some things, like building a commercial airliner might take large teams).

This has been to my heart for years https://www.radicalsimpli.city/

Looking at HN, enjoying the single founder SaaS threads, this is the future for a lot of business models.

[abnercoimbre]

Do you believe we're favorably headed that direction already? Or would it require a lot more conferences highlighting this, getting mindshare buy-in, etc?

[KingOfCoders]

No not yet.

People don't want to have meaningless jobs [1] and want jobs that make sense to them. But the other force is VC driven startups where the mantra is "Scale, scale, scale" by hiring hundreds of people - with the goal to make people rich. I do assume for more and more people money is no longer a substitue for sense though, several of my coachees want new jobs with less pay but more sense. I do believe this becoming a mega trend for the next decades (AI, 3d-printing, ... will accelerate this trend). We're at the very very beginning.

[1] https://yougov.co.uk/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2015/...