alt Hacker NewsAs a technology company scales up, making great software becomes one of a hundred things the company needs to do right in order to survive and grow. Doesn’t mean it isn’t absolutely essential, but so is having a strong GTM machine, finance competency, operational rigor, HR, and a long list of other essential functions.
It’s only the tech industry where the voice and ego of small companies hold outsized share of voice and love to claim the contrary.
> It’s only the tech industry where the voice and ego of small companies hold outsized share of voice and love to claim the contrary.
I'd be a little bit careful with this claim:
The fact that small companies can have such opinionated opinions without going bust is to me a sign that in particular for software development (but I don't claim that this is transferable to other industries) small teams/companies do have an efficiency advantage.
Many hypotheses can be formulated why this might be the case, like
- software industry is less regulated
- writing good software as the company's product requires a lot less collaboration between many stakeholders than what is necessary for producing other types of sellable products
- in software, "having a smart, though opinionated idea" is of a much bigger advantage (also for the company) than in other, more established industries
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