> It depends. At a small company? Sure. But no individual employee, or even small collective of employees that aren't VP or key contributor in an irreplaceable knowledge-base, have the clout to turn a Microsoft or a Google.
I see this claim thrown around a lot with no evidence for it.
I have no strong evidence other than "It's actually happening right now and the companies have only made minor deviations from their courses."
That second half is purely subjective, and we won't really have a good idea on how much of a difference it made until historians can look back on this era with a quarter-century of hindsight.
I see this claim thrown around a lot with no evidence for it.