Off Topic — HabitableZone

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Good post.
TB — (archived)

I too have seen first hand what happens when the founders get eased out in favor of the "business professionals." Too many companies start to forget that they're in existence to bring a good product out at a good price, and it starts becoming only about crap like the stock value.

The guys I used to work with in one of our rocket companies still use the term "Harvard MBA" as a curse word.

After watching disasters happen even to companies like Apple who made this mistake, you'd think people would learn.

Of course, this isn't a universal rule. I have also seen brilliant founders who couldn't handle a business to save their lives. The lucky companies in those positions managed to locate someone who can deal with the business end without losing the vision, but it's a long shot.

It would be interesting to speculate on how Apple would have turned out if it had been only Steve Jobs or Wozniak, and not both.

I don't know what you are driving at with your "free market" stuff. I do know that a free market is what allows the Next Big Thing to come into existence.

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