The most interesting company in tech: Valve

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I'm not sure what you are asking as far as "Do you think it would work?".
They have been in business for many years now and ,even though it is a private company, almost every gamer I know,including myself have their main program installed,Steam, and have made many purchases from them. So do you mean will it work as a company making money,definitely yes I think.
Does the corporate structure work? It must to a certain degree because they have lasted this long.

I understand that and to a point agree with you.
But I just look at it as a company have a different corporate identity,like Apple and Google,and it does seem to work.
Of course,there are several downsides I think, Valvle had/has a reputation for not releasing products on time,whis in this day and age seems to be a lot of company's problem,and it also is seen as a company with a sense of humour,a plus in my eyes.
And of course, the founders of Valve came from Microsoft if I remember correctly,another company with a different corporate mindset.

Well, I am still kind of writing MY book. My last project added a few parts to it! It covers a number of different things, and says much of what a lot of that page says. The reason I never hired employees, or decided to create a corporation like so many, and the reason why franchises are purchased, etc... is because you DON'T know who you can trust or how to properly start it. Take my old job, for example! I decided to take a job at another company that is basically a PORTION of what I USED to do. They argued for me for a time that I didn't have it on my resume!

My OLD job has now been split up. Programmer, analyst, DBA, BA, ADMIN, BI.... MAN!
And my old company didn't have HR! I had ONE boss that DID know something about what I did.

Today, a lot of corporations spend MILLIONS of dollars in WASTE! I had one customer that was a bank. Let's just say they were LARGE, I won't name them. I estimate that my book, as it stands, would have saved them over $600K USD in the span of 6 months for two employees! That is a LOT of waste! They might have wasted more, but I doubt they paid even a penny less. I'm half tempted to give it to people that hire me, but I would only regret it. They likely would never read it.

Steve

Not sure I understand Steve, I wasn't criticizing anyone or anything. Just making some comparisons.

They are doing okay - in Bellvue, Washington. I would think if you got the right people you could have a company that would thrive and everyone would be happy as hell.

Note - these people are all probably of sufficient temperament and intelligence to handle the company structure. If you need someone to tell you how to do your work, you aren't going to be a fit for them. I don't see any problem with them being able to work it. I've always refused management jobs because of the authoritarian hierarchy mentality it takes. I don't have it. As a coordinator, you aren't "boss" you are doing a project and enlist the help of others in the company to get it done - there is a lot more personal pride in excellence in a group that is doing a project where each has the reigns of their own part of it. That company makes me wish I had tech skills. As the "owrner" of the project, you can still get rid of dead weight if they don't give you the desired results - you just can't nag them about how to get the results.