Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee

Re:Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or ... by lmm on Thursday September 28, 2017 @05:09PM (#15360731)

Is it that they're the only way that works? Or is it that everyone just assumes they're the only way? E.g. Valve took a radically different approach to management and organisational structure and seems to have been very successful.

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Re:Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or ... by eropple on Thursday September 28, 2017 @06:03PM (#15361140)

Valve is largely paralyzed and if you aren't in the group of cool kids most of that self-actualizing stuff in the HR document/propaganda material doesn't really apply to you.

Enough people have left because of it that the bloom is well off the rose.

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Re:Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or ... by unabst on Thursday September 28, 2017 @05:35PM (#15360932)

Of course not... hence the exceptions, and room for innovation, and opportunity for those seeking that innovation.

But if you just need something that works, copying a wheel is easier than reinventing one. Better yet, just buy one.

Furthermore, understanding the reasons why the most common wheel is what it is will provide invaluable insight into making a better wheel if it comes to that. It will also tell you the market forces or anything else at play. The reasons why anything works will exist and be real, if that thing that works exists and is working already.

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