There are different folks qualified for different size companies.<p>Some people do best at the 1-5 person company.
Some people do best at the 5-25 person company.
Some people do best at the 25-100 person company.
And some people do best at 100-250, and 250+.<p>The best people are the ones that grow with you as the company grows and take on bigger leadership roles as needed, constantly working for what's best for the company and it's people.<p>The people Google is hiring at 20,000 are generally not the people I want as we go from 25 to 100. That's not universally true, but when we lose a candidate (which is rare) it's because they go to another start-up and they had to make a real tough choice, often resorting to commute and other lesser factors to decide. It's not because they went to Google or LinkedIn.