alt Hacker NewsIt's so odd. Never before have I seen an example where small companies have such an insane benefit over large ones. (because of the insane rates large orgs need to pay for AI).
It's so odd. Never before have I seen an example where small companies have such an insane benefit over large ones. (because of the insane rates large orgs need to pay for AI).
Small companies have tons of benefits over large ones.
A company I previously worked at was in the low 1000s of employees, but because finance would require us to pay by invoice, we often had to opt for enterprise plans. Typically the cheaper "Team" plans only allow payment by card. Enterprise tiers are almost entirely corporate "must haves" like SSO, centralised team management, etc.
As you scale from a bunch of people who know each other to multiple teams and then teams who don't even know who the other teams are, you are required to have bureaucracy. You go from being able to announce on a teams chat not to use AI for "super top secret project" to month long projects on how to segregate work so that some users can have access, but others can't. Vendors will capitalise on that and force you to pay for it.