On the other side of the divide, Silicon Valley startups have a problem that is caused by their own successes: scale. No startup wants to structure itself, as it grows, along the lines of a gigantic company with functions so siloed that they don’t even come into contact with one another. Yet that’s often what happens when startups get too large to be managed as a single team. The systems that work so well for small companies don’t translate into the larger ecosystem that a growing company needs, so the company eventually stalls.
