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It amuses me that only the very last item on the list is about making money, rather than spending it. Yes, if I had a billion billion dollars and a fantasy pony castle then I would also have a team of super hackers that would make my every twitter wish come true.

Other than that: yes, that would be an awesome way to run a company. But it seems that the bigger the companies get, the more they shy away from that structure (obvious exception: Valve).

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It is satire with a twist (tweet?) of truth behind it. My point is that I would focus on exploiting the user base in order to find ways to be profitable. That takes lots of hackers, and less middle managers. It would be an awesome way to run a company, and I wish someone would give me the chance to even work in one like that.

You rlast sentence is true. Bigger companies seem to mostly focus on themselves. Guess its a side-effect of bureucracy, dilber-style management, and MBAs.

Throwing more developers at a problem doesn't always help things. Sometimes, it can actually makes things much worse. One very talented middle-manager can often lead to more productivity than adding 20 inexperienced developers to the mix.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

Oh, I agree. I don't have an idea of how to properly run such enterprise, but had fun playing pretend. Though I'm serious when I say that I'd love to work with or for a company that would focus on software/hardware R&D. More so if someone would be kind enough to give me some funding to try and make such thing work. I don't aim to be rich, I just want to build stuff. :)

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