>But I still look to Gore's insight that the real decisions are made around the water cooler and in the carpool van, and that is helpful.

So it assumes a very in-person culture for one thing.

Which is fine. But it basically excludes models based on people communicating in a more distributed way. And that probably strictly limits size and geographic diversity.

Nothing wrong with that. I can say I'm building a company in X location. I want everyone to come into the office and we're not looking to get big. That's fine. Among other things, you've described every local manufacturing, wtc. business.