Re:Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of...
by kev009 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @04:22AM
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I would phrase it differently as competence scarcity.
It doesn't take many people to do soup to nuts businesses.. think WhatsApp's 50 engineers, Netflix's 100 person OCA team (if you don't think OCA is a standalone product you don't know much about technology business) doing 40% of the Internet by volume.. the vast majority of people just aren't very good that work in technology. Business governance grossly underestimates the effects of mediocre performance.
So the real question is why aren't governors trying to encourage WhatsApp and OCA style businesses, it's far more cost efficient. I understand why an organization itself empire builds, misaligned incentives.
It doesn't take many people to do soup to nuts businesses.. think WhatsApp's 50 engineers, Netflix's 100 person OCA team (if you don't think OCA is a standalone product you don't know much about technology business) doing 40% of the Internet by volume.. the vast majority of people just aren't very good that work in technology. Business governance grossly underestimates the effects of mediocre performance.
So the real question is why aren't governors trying to encourage WhatsApp and OCA style businesses, it's far more cost efficient. I understand why an organization itself empire builds, misaligned incentives.