thinking about how venture capital itself is rooted in the labor alienation w/r/t software, where the most successful people did the least work (over their life) in the trenches so have no idea the timeframes required to create Good Software.
because good software only comes as a result of optimizing your business for a positive reading of Conway's Law, that is, having good and healthy organizational and collaborative structures, knowing that that gets reflected in the things you create.
and that takes years. Sure, you'll have a lot of lessons learned, and you get faster, just by taking the time, but the product and the org are intertwined inseperably just because of how ideas, communication, implementation, and how you allocate finite time and energy, collide