Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st. - Salim Ismail

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.

You have to be self-aware and look for that startup idea and purpose that is a perfect fit with you — with you as a person, not as a business[person].

Use AI to give yourself radical agency. You have the opportunity for future shape rather than future shock.