We see a lot of "core member of great thing founds own thing" and you really want to see them succeed but having an organization succeed takes a a lot of people with lots of different skills. I'm not convinced that any given jumble of highly talented folks actually produce something if we somehow ran a but of iterations of "jumble of highly talented folks".
I've heard plenty of stories of such folks going their own way to be stopped by basic business type problems like project management, just managing people, maintaining focus, raising money and keeping investors happy, etc.
He founded Blizzard, he can probably do it again. I think he is the last of the early Blizzard people to go off on his own, so we'll see if the success was a fluke or if there is something special about him.
They have a great group of people. I’ve worked with maybe 6-7 of them directly, and they’re all on my list of people I’d actively want to work with again, across a pretty wide set of skills.
The ones I just know of are also people friends say are both great at their stuff and good to work with, so I have high hopes they’ll make some awesome stuff.
We see a lot of "core member of great thing founds own thing" and you really want to see them succeed but having an organization succeed takes a a lot of people with lots of different skills. I'm not convinced that any given jumble of highly talented folks actually produce something if we somehow ran a but of iterations of "jumble of highly talented folks".
I've heard plenty of stories of such folks going their own way to be stopped by basic business type problems like project management, just managing people, maintaining focus, raising money and keeping investors happy, etc.