> That's dumb and just an excuse. If it were true, why not keep the whole team and empower them and deliver 10x the existing value?
That requires having enough good new ideas for everyone to work on, and sadly a lot of companies don't have those
That requires having enough good new ideas for everyone to work on, and sadly a lot of companies don't have those
I think startups have an easier time for 2 reasons: They are innovating on the product side already, and probably were already capacity constrained for work on the top ideas. They also have a high proportion of tech debt which never bubbled to the top of effort vs reward (competing against product work) before but would still be valuable to fix. E.g. https://posthog.com/blog/sql-parser was on the HN frontpage a few months ago, and this work would never have happened in the before times
If it's easier for startups, it's for the same reason doing a "pivot" is easier: they usually don't have much of a product or revenue or customer base to begin with, they throw things out there and see what sticks.