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It’s more than just employees. It’s also existing capital, both physical and in form of intellectual property (e.g. the codebases and their real world deployments), and the organization of labor inside the company. If you take 10 000 random software engineers and put them in one huge office without any business structure imposed on them, you aren’t going to see billions of dollars in revenue any time soon.



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