The Other Half of "Artists Ship"

One of the differences between big companies and start-ups is that big companies tend to have developed procedures to protect themselves against mistakes. A start-up walks like a toddler, bashing into things and falling over all the time. A big company is more deliberate. The gradual accumulation of checks in an organization is a kind of learning, based on disasters that have happened to it or others like it. After giving a contract to a supplier who goes bankrupt and fails to deliver, for example, a company might require all suppliers to prove they’re solvent before submitting bids.

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