[AndrewKemendo]

I disagree with most of this because I don't think it is about money, but this part in particular underplays what in my mind is the largest reason entrepreneurs cannot stand large organizations:

>Corporate politics and bureaucracy are just another obstacle that can be learned and overcome

You can learn to navigate politics and bureaucracy, but you can't overcome them without becoming management - in which case your hands are generally bound to the same metrics that your previous bosses were as well.

If it takes 4 levels of review just to see if my project can be begun or to build a team to begin even MVP development, I don't want to be near that. It's too slow, access to resources, if available, are so tightly scrutinized that if there is any failure you can kiss future chances goodbye, attaching new hardware or software is a nightmare because the systems need to all be compatible on this network etc.. etc.. all make the large corporately integrated system terrible for the fast paced error>revise>error>revise cycle that entrepreneurs want.

This is why the Valve model of flat organization is so appealing to many and spoken about in terms like "future of the workplace."