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The way to do it is "3 people making a baby, 3 people building a nursery, 3 people promoting the baby shower". Not all companies can do this, or are managed well enough to pull it off, but it's not an insane thing to try once you've already decided to get on the VC gravy train.

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What's the 3rd person's responsibility in making the baby?

In my experience, babies are best made with a life coach present.

[From] "the same couple as is best known through the biographical 1950 film and book Cheaper by the Dozen."

[Time and Motion Study..]

.. is a major part of scientific management"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_motion_study

See Matrix Management, for reporting :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_management

It's obvious that the task has to be able to be subdivided suitably, but not enough is said about Matrix Management, especially when the cost of parallel business development is considered, in seeking increasing speed of execution.

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