An Exponential Organization is one whose impact (or output) is disproportionally large — at least 10x larger — compared to its peers because of the u… - Salim Ismail

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

matrix structures is that, over time, power accrues to the horizontals. Often, HR or legal have no incentive to say yes, so their default answer becomes no (which is why HR is often referred to as "inhuman resources"). It's not that HR people are bad people. But, over time, their incentives end up at cross-purposes with those of product managers.

According to entrepreneur Chris Dixon, the most important change for entrepreneurs versus a decade ago is the ratio of reach to capital. Today, the reach of a startup is 100x larger, while the capital needed is one tenth that of a decade ago — a thousandfold improvement in just ten years.