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Re:Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007) by ignoramous on Sunday April 28, 2019 @02:40AM (#19769726)
What you aspire sounds close to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_team

In one instance that I know, a Tiger Team of 6 delivered run away hit TV streaming product in 8 months. From conception to design to prototype to factory production to launch.

Another, albeit larger scale example would be Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works

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Re:Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007) by crowbahr on Sunday April 28, 2019 @10:20AM (#19771251)
Sounds also like the Google X branch.
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Re:Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007) by ignoramous on Sunday April 28, 2019 @02:28PM (#19772772)
A different take on this approach is by Cisco: They spin off products, fund the team, and later acquire them. An instance: https://www.businessinsider.in/Why-Cisco-Has-Showered-These-...
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