Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta
by ido on Saturday December 17, 2022 @07:02AM
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It's not just tricks, there are also real efficiency gains from not having duplicate efforts (double HR department, double finance, etc).
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Right. Spin off a company and the spin-off now needs all those corporate functions that cause many developers to ask "What do all those people do?" It's not purely duplicative as such things scale with size to a certain degree. And it depends to some degree on how the spin off is structured but there's almost certainly a lot of incremental headcount and other expense.