A little over 4 years ago I came up with the idea for Citizen Shareholders, the concept that people should be able to exercise the voting rights of the shares that they own through their collective investments to change the behavior of the corporations that dominate our planet.

One of my favorite Reid Hoffman quotes is, “startups can’t afford to hire great people, they have to make them.”

There is a potential inference here which suggests that once startups are no longer cash-strapped, they revert to the norm – hiring, rather than making, great people.