Thank you! That’s exactly the intuition I was trying to surface. The minimum efficient scale point is doing a lot of work here, and consulting is a great example of where you can see it play out in real time. Once that scale falls, it does seem to introduce a sorting margin you pointed out where some high-performing independent workers can outproduce firm-based teams, at least for certain types of work! Will be interesting to see how this continues to play out.
Thank you! That’s exactly the intuition I was trying to surface. The minimum efficient scale point is doing a lot of work here, and consulting is a great example of where you can see it play out in real time. Once that scale falls, it does seem to introduce a sorting margin you pointed out where some high-performing independent workers can outproduce firm-based teams, at least for certain types of work! Will be interesting to see how this continues to play out.