if your company is spend 80% energy on front end, your revenue is highly correlated to team time investment while if your value is brought by something more fundamental: infrastructure, AI models, back end, you can simply serve more people in less time a cook can spend one hour cooking to feed one stomach while a dev can bring value to thousands in an hour a back end dev is more likely bringing value to more people than a front end dev it's akin to the game dev industry you need to dev a game for 6 months with 1000 employees and then your game last only a year then you need to start again, new game while if you're openai you create an AI in a few months and then you can go to the beach while it's scaling to millions just look at chatgpt the fastest scalable consumer product in history #business #front-end #back-end